Also spelled pastry-cook
noun
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a cook or shopkeeper who specializes in pastries, cakes, and desserts
The pastrycook filled the front window with pies and iced buns.
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A compound of pastry + cook, also historically written pastry-cook. Before pastry chef became the usual occupational term, pastrycook could denote either the specialist who made such food or the proprietor of a pastry shop.