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French bread

French bread noun: synonym of baguette: a long thin loaf of bread with a thick crust and often having large bubbles of air inside, popular in and associated with France.

Noun

French bread (usually uncountable, plural French breads)

  1. (informal, usually) Synonym of baguette: a long thin loaf of bread with a thick crust and often having large bubbles of air inside, popular in and associated with France.
  2. (usually) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see French, bread: any of many types of bread made in France or said to be made faithfully in the style thereof.
    • Boule refers to the shape of the traditional French breads—puffed rustic rounds scored by the village baker.2016, Sarah Black, One Dough, Ten Breads: Making Great Bread by Hand, page 62

Synonyms of French bread

Forms of French bread

pluralFrench breads

Origin of French bread

From French + bread, from being the stereotypical type of bread associated with France.

Questions about French bread

What does French bread mean?
French bread means synonym of baguette: a long thin loaf of bread with a thick crust and often having large bubbles of air inside, popular in and associated with France.
What part of speech is French bread?
French bread is a noun.
What is the plural of French bread?
The plural of French bread is French breads.

Words near French bread in the dictionary

  1. French bishop
  2. French braid
  3. French braided
  4. French braiding
  5. French braids
  6. French bread
  7. French breads
  8. French Broad
  9. French Bulldog
  10. French Bulldogs
  11. French Camp

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