baguette

«baguette» in Mova's school dictionary: A long, thin loaf of white bread with a crisp crust… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a baguette, baguettes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A long, thin loaf of white bread with a crisp crust, first made in France. tree →

2) A sandwich made with this bread. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday food: buy a baguette from the bakery, a ham baguette for lunch. Geography and French lessons: a picture of France. In maths problems, a baguette may be cut into equal pieces (fractions). Phrases: a ham baguette, a fresh baguette.

examples

• We bought a fresh baguette from the bakery. tree →
• I had a cheese baguette for lunch. tree →
• The French eat baguettes every day. tree →
• Cut the baguette into 4 equal pieces. tree →
• The baguette was still warm. tree →
• She dipped the baguette in her soup. tree →

note

French word: pronounced ba-GET. Plural baguettes. In UK cafés, a baguette often means a sandwich.

In the corpora

• A French hot-dog is often a sausage poked into a baguette; the h of hot-dog is not said.
• un jambon-beurre is a baguette with ham and butter, one of the most popular sandwiches in France.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «baguette» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.