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bacchetta
Italian · medieval
"a small stick"
a small stick or rod, a diminutive of bacchio (stick)
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Stage 2 of 3
baguette
French · 1900s
"a long, thin loaf of French bread"
settled in French for the long, thin loaf of crusty bread
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baguette
English · 1930s
"a long, thin loaf of crusty French bread"
adopted directly as the distinctive French bread became known abroad
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