baguette

Etymology

Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.

noun

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

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