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Quotation dates: 1639-1679
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(Pastry,) Paistry, -ie, n. [e.m.E. pastry(e, pasterye, a place where pastry is made (1570), articles of food made of paste collectively (1544), and in pasterye-hous (1539), OF. pastaierie, -oierie, -eirie.] The room or other place where pastry is made. Also comb. with -roum, id. — 1639 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II. 396.
For thiecking up ane coople rowme one ilk syd of the said hous betwixt the timber hous abov the paistry 1679 Thanes of Cawdor 350.
To your doughteris att ther goeing to the baall … to them when they entred the paistry — 1672 Mylne Master Masons 179.
To build the said kitchens baikhouss and pastrie rowmes 1676 Ib. 192.
Paistrie roomes
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