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baguette

baguette

22 2.6
A long thin loaf of French bread with a crisp crust and soft inside
  • noun
  • /bæˈɡɛt/
translation icon : baguette
  • Having a cheese and tomato baguette and a packet of crisps.
  • baguette slices
  • crusty baguette
  • French baguette

All right, if you had to choose Ricolette or the baguette filled with cheese.

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Examples

  • The fried chicken with the baguette was way too dry.

    Blog text (17)
  • "It's baguette, a kind of long French bread."

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Do you have a baguette?

  • All right, we're having a traditional French baguette sandwich.

  • When you go to France, you can eat a baguette or a croissant.

  • We've got our fresh baguette on the windowsill ready to eat for breakfast.

  • Got a large latte, ham and tomato baguette and two bananas to start the day.

  • Makes me want to go out and bake a baguette—if only I knew how.

    Blog text (22)
  • So we ducked into this tiny café and ended up having the best baguette of our life.

  • We sliced and toasted half of a French baguette and served the leeks on top.

Synonyms

bread
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805 1.0

A common food made by baking dough from flour, often with yeast

is the particular long thin French baked item with a crisp crust and soft interior
loaf
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125 1.0

A shaped piece of food, often bread, baked or formed to slice and eat

is a specific slender French form rather than a generic baked mass
loaf of bread
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28 1.0

A shaped bread baked as one piece and usually sliced before eating

is the narrow long form meant to be crisp outside and soft inside
French bread
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5 1.0

A long crusty white bread like a baguette served with meals

is the specific long thin form with crisp crust and soft interior
French loaf
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  • US
1.6

A long thin loaf of white bread with a crisp crust, like a baguette

is identical in meaning but used widely as the traditional term in English
ficelle
vsbaguette
9.8

A long thin bread like a narrow baguette

is the standard wider form with a softer interior rather than very narrow

How Dense

pumpernickel
6 7.4
rye bread
4 2.2
baguette
22 2.6
white bread
12 1.0

Surface Forms

baguette singular
baguettes plural

Etymology

Baguette comes from French and originally meant a 'little stick' or 'wand', because the bread is long and thin like a stick; that's why a baguette is a long, thin loaf of bread.