baguette
noun /bæˈɡet/
/bæˈɡet/
- (also French loaf, French stick)a loaf of white bread in the shape of a long thick stickTopics Foodb2
- a small baguette or part of one that is filled with food and eaten as a sandwich
- a cheese baguette
Word Originearly 18th cent. (in the architectural sense): from French, from Italian bacchetto, diminutive of bacchio, from Latin baculum ‘staff’. Current senses date from the 20th cent.