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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baked product made with flour |
| Synonyms: | Danish, bread, cake, croissant, dainty, delicacy, doughnut, panettone, patisserie, phyllo, pie, strudel, sweet roll, tart, turnover, éclair |
| Main Entry: | confection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sweet food |
| Synonyms: | cake, candy, dainty, jam, pastry, sweet |
| Main Entry: | dessert |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sweet treat |
| Synonyms: | cake, candy, confection, cookie, frozen dessert, frozen treat, fruit, ice cream, last course, pastry, pie, pudding, sweet, sweet course, tart |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |
| Main Entry: | doughnut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sweet ring-shaped fried cake |
| Synonyms: | bun, cruller, danish, dunker, pastry, sinker, sweet roll |
| Main Entry: | loaf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | block of something |
| Synonyms: | bun, cake, cube, dough, lump, mass, pastry, roll, slab, twist |
| Main Entry: | sweets |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food with a high sugar content |
| Synonyms: | bonbons, candied fruit, candy, comfit, confection, confectionery, dessert, pastries, pie, preserves, pudding, sweetmeats |
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