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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 baguettes
Familiarity information: FRENCH BREAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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"):
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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