Pastry

A term with two main meanings:

1. a mixture of flour and (usually) fat and water with (sometimes) other ingredients, made into a dough and cooked, and then used to cover, support, encase, or constitute dishes such as are described under pie, tart, pasty, and croissant; and

2. a particular dish which consists partly or wholly of pastry in the first sense.

(1) is dealt with here, (2) under pastries.