French bread

French bread
noun
a crusty sourdough bread often baked in long slender tapered loaves or baguettes
• Hypernyms: ↑white bread, ↑light bread
• Hyponyms: ↑baguet, ↑baguette

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized F
Etymology: Middle English frensh breed
1. : a bread with a crisp crust and little crumbling made with flour, water, salt, and leaven and baked in a stick about 18 inches long
2. : any of various fancy-shaped breads (as French rolls and crescents)

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a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Cf. baguette (def. 3).
[1680-90]

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French bread noun
Crusty bread baked in a long narrow shape with tapered ends
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Main Entry: ↑French

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French bread UK US noun [uncountable]
bread in the form of a long thin stick that is soft on the inside and hard on the outside
Thesaurus: types of breadhyponym types of food or drinkhypernym

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French bread,
a bread with a crisp, well-browned crust, baked in long, slender loaves.

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n. white bread in a long, crisp loaf

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noun [noncount]
: a type of crusty bread that is baked in long, thin loaves

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ˌFrench ˈbread [French bread] noun uncountable
white bread in the shape of a long thick stick

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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