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FRENCH BREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does French bread mean? 

FRENCH BREAD (noun)
  The noun FRENCH BREAD has 1 sense:

1. a crusty sourdough bread often baked in long slender tapered loaves or baguettesplay

  Familiarity information: FRENCH BREAD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRENCH BREAD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A crusty sourdough bread often baked in long slender tapered loaves or baguettes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("French bread" is a kind of...):

light bread; white bread (bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "French bread"):

baguet; baguette (narrow French stick loaf)


 Context examples 


I did not quite like, at breakfast, to hear you talk so much about the French bread at Northanger.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)



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