baguette

Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bæˈɡɛt/

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baguette (plural baguettes)

1. A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
2. A gem cut in such a shape.
4. A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
5. (architecture) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
6. (zoology) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
7. (ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.^[2]

   Synonym: frog

• (bread): freedom bread (US politics, humorous, rare), French bread (informal), French stick

Borrowed from Italian bacchetta.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡɛt/

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baguette f (plural baguettes)

1. stick, rod, any long thin object
2. (food) baguette, French stick

   J’achète une baguette tous les jours.

   I buy a baguette every day.

3. chopstick

   Les japonais mangent avec des baguettes.

   The Japanese eat with chopsticks.

4. (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: 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.

5. wand

   Gwenda a agité sa baguette magique.

   Gwenda waved her magic wand.

   • 1993, Jane Donnelly, chapter 8, in Marie May, transl., Le labyrinthe des passions [The labyrinth of passions] (Collection Azur) (fiction; pocket), Paris: Harlequin, translation of Hold back the dark (in English):

     Imaginez que, d’un coup de baguette magique, une fée nous ait permis de remonter le temps…

     [original: Imagine that, with a wave from a magic wand, a fairy would allow us to trace back time…]

6. (firearms) gun-stick, rod for stuffing the gun with ammunition
7. (Louisiana, Cajun) the barrel of a gun

• “baguette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• baguete, baguet

Unadapted borrowing from French baguette.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡet/ [baˈɣ̞et̪]
• Rhymes: -et

baguette f (plural baguettes)

1. baguette, French bread (a long, narrow, parbaked bread)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• 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 baked in bakeries.

• “baguette”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From French baguette.

baguette c

1. baguette (bread)

   Synonym: pain riche

• baguette in Svensk ordbok.