Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A gem cut in the form of narrow rectangle.
- n. The form of such a gem.
- n. Architecture A narrow convex molding.
- n. A small narrow loaf of French bread often used for sandwiches.
Wiktionary
- n. a narrow, relatively long rectangular shape
- n. a gem cut in such a shape
- n. a variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape
WordNet 3.0
- n. narrow French stick loaf
Etymologies
- French for stick (Wiktionary)
- French, rod, from Italian bacchetta, diminutive of bacchio, rod, from Latin baculum, stick; see bak- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'm reading the Harry Potter books in French and "baguette" is the word they use for "wand.”
“Le sandwich baguette is one of the cheapest and fastest yet, I think, most filling lunches you can get when you're in any French city - a great way to economize.”
“The greeks also stuff their gyros with fries … mmm … and I - love - the Israeli style pita breads … Kosher Delight gets that right too, but their baguette is so damn good too.”
“Professor Salt, you may be right that one type of baguette is better than another for sandwich purposes … BUT, beware what happened to the bagel.”
“Yes, he has a favourite sandwich consisting of a particular baguette from the local market, blobs of mayonnaise, pepper salami and havarti cheese.”
Frollicking in Belgium with some Earl Grey cookies.. IMBB #17
“That kind of baguette is exclusive to the Vietnamese banh mi; anything else wouldn’t work.”
“a slice or two of a baguette (perhaps more if your baguette is really skinny, cutting on a bias gives you more surface area to work with)”
“You can’t tell what a baguette is going to taste like before you buy it and bite into one, but a good one should have a nice crust and a moist, chewy interior.”
“Common cuts are the baguette, which is long and thin like the French bread; brilliant, a fat cone shape that optimizes reflected light; and the boat-shaped marquise cut.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘baguette’.
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shapes
words for shape
( randomness, visual. descriptive )triangular, conical, round, broad, congruous, hexagonal, globular, curved, oval, rectangular, parallel, crumpled and 142 more...
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OvoloOvoloOvoloOvoloOvoloOvolo
Decorative trims and moldings and their elements, from room-scale to whole-building-scale, including, of course, ovolo.
egg and dart, echinus, drip cap, fluting fillet, rosette, scotia, screen molding, picture rail, chair rail, quarter-round, crown molding, bandelet and 56 more...
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Loan words from French
gite, coq au vin, dernier cri, clique, hors d'œuvre, touché, naïve, coquette, bourgeois, contretemps, flâneur, film noir and 63 more...
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-ette
diminutive; female; substitute
dinette, suffragette, leatherette, baguette, bachelorette, brochette, casette, croquette, etiquette, gazette, launderette, leaflette and 2 more...
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wingblossom's Words
flicker, wrinkle, solipsism, tea, aurora, lilt, burnt, crescent, gale, pocket, ephemeral, candied and 136 more...
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Wonderful bread
baguette, bialy, pumpernickel, boule, brioche, challah, chapati, cornbread, dosa, mantou, flatbread, focaccia and 102 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Some Wednesday words
Just another arbitrary list of words that come up for me today, June 20 2007
tutelage, hobby horse, abracadabra, occipital, martinet, margarita, persona, cute, sharp, acute, confabulate, conspire and 97 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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dirtysnowflake's Words
snowflake, parisian, couture, mystery, ruby, clandestine, corset, october, list, touch, caress, aboulia and 156 more...
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Ugliest Words Ever
words that I refuse to say out loud.
tuna, uranus, bulbous, vaginal, rectum, cunnilingus, flatulance, pedagogy, blooper, booger, beefy, polyp and 116 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for baguette.
bilby "In France, one baker is touting his automated baguette dispenser—which is loaded with partially precooked loaves that get fully baked when the machine is activated—as away to get fresh bread when bakeries are closed."
- JWT, What's Cooking? - Trends in Food, Feb 2012. Jan 1, 2013