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One who is employed to make sweet baked goods.

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Usage examples (36)
  • So the little 'French pastrycook' gradually disappeared.
  • ‘Former pastrycook and Muffin – maker, much respected;’ introducing gravestone.
  • He decided not to become a schoolmaster, and moved a little closer to le beau monde by becoming an apprentice pastrycook.
  • My young friend had intended this, but his dinner had run itself away to cold round balls and coloured forms from the pastrycook.
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