patty shell

1. 1.

   shell of puff paste

   Synonymsbouchee

   Broaderpastry

Questions about patty shell

What does patty shell mean?

patty shell means "shell of puff paste".

What is another word for patty shell?

Close synonyms include bouchee. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is patty shell a common word?

patty shell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.