baguette

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What New Orleanians refer to as "French bread" isn't exactly a classic French baguette, which is too hard on the outside for a classic po-boy.

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  • And then there were slices of baguette--the French might have gone from Tunisia, but they'd left a number of culinary traditions behind--topped with goat cheese and roasted tomatoes. —  The African Quest
  • What we end up with is like a baguette, hard on the edges, softer but still dense in the center, and wholly satisfying.
  • What New Orleanians refer to as "French bread" isn't exactly a classic French baguette, which is too hard on the outside for a classic po-boy. —  The Amateur Gourmet
  • Nestled inside the baguette was what I came to later know as pate. —  Hungry Magazine
  • Grab a baguette, a little cheese, a bottle of wine, and head to Paris. —  Search Blog
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  1. French, rod, from Italian bacchetta, diminutive of bacchio, rod, from Latin baculum, stick; see bak- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/bæˈgɛt/
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