ficelle
9.8
A long thin bread like a narrow baguette
- noun
- /fɪˈsɛl/
:
ficelle
- I ordered a ficelle at the bakery to accompany my soup.
Examples
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For lunch, I toasted a ficelle and filled it with fresh vegetables.
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There are tons of industrial ones in France—which always suck—but you want the handmade one known as la ficelle.
Blog text (18) -
The chef used a ficelle to make elegant sandwiches for the party.
Synonyms
baguette
vsficelle
22
2.6
A long thin loaf of French bread with a crisp crust and soft inside
is narrower and slimmer than that loaf
French bread
vsficelle
5
1.0
A long crusty white bread like a baguette served with meals
is a narrower single loaf variant of that broader crusty bread
1.6
A long thin loaf of white bread with a crisp crust, like a baguette
is a narrower more specific type than this long white loaf
How Thin
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ficelle comes from French and literally means 'little string'. Because the bread is long and thin like a string, bakers used this name for a narrow baguette, so ficelle now means a thin French bread.