baguette
See also: Baguette
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
baguette (plural baguettes)
- A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
- A gem cut in such a shape.
- A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
- (architecture) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
- (zoology) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
- (ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.[2]
- Synonym: frog
Synonyms
- (bread): French bread (informal), French stick
Translations
a narrow, relatively long rectangular shape
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a gem cut in such a shape
a variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape
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References
- ^ http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/baguette
- ^ Kashima, Yoshihisa, Klaus Fiedler, and Peter Freytag. Stereotype dynamics: Language-based approaches to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of stereotypes. Taylor & Francis, 2008. p. 118.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian bacchetta.
Pronunciation
Noun
baguette f (plural baguettes)
- stick, rod, any long thin object
- (food) baguette, French stick
- J’achète une baguette tous les jours.
- I buy a baguette every day.
- chopstick
- Les japonais mangent avec des baguettes.
- The Japanese eat with chopsticks.
- (music) drumstick; (conductor's) baton
- Ringo est un maître des baguettes.
- Ringo is a drumstick master.
- 1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: (deprecated template usage) CLE International:
- Assis en rond dans la cour, nous jouons du tambour.
Assis en rond dans la cour, nous jouons du tambour.
Ses baguettes font tacatamtam.
Tes baguettes font tacatamtam.
Mes baguettes, mes baguettes, mes baguettes font tacatamtam.
Ses baguettes font tacatamtam.
Tes baguettes font tacatamtam.
Mes baguettes, mes baguettes, mes baguettes font tacatamtam.
Tacatamtam.- Sitting in a circle in the yard, we play the drum.
Sitting in a circle in the yard, we play the drum.
Their drumsticks go tacatamtam.
Your drumsticks go tacatamtam.
My drumsticks, my drumsticks, my drumsticks go tacatamtam.
Their drumsticks go tacatamtam.
Your drumsticks go tacatamtam.
My drumsticks, my drumsticks, my drumsticks go tacatamtam.
Tacatamtam.
- Sitting in a circle in the yard, we play the drum.
- wand
- Gwenda a agité sa baguette magique.
- Gwenda waved her magic wand.
- (firearms) gun-stick, rod for stuffing the gun with ammunition
- (Louisiana, Cajun) the barrel of a gun
Further reading
- “baguette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
baguette f (plural baguettes)
- baguette, French bread (a long, narrow, parbaked bread)
Usage notes
- In Spain, a baguette tends to refer only to a long, narrow, parbaked and poor quality baguette in supermarkets. While a barra de pan is the rest of baguettes and brewed in bakeries.
Swedish
Noun
baguette c
- baguette (bread)
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