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   ba·guette

   /baˈɡet/

   noun

   • 1. a long, narrow loaf of French bread.
   • 2. a gem, especially a diamond, cut in a long rectangular shape: "a baguette diamond"
   • 3. a small molding, semicircular in section.
   • 4. a slim, rectangular handbag.

   Word Origin early 18th century (in baguette (sense 3)): from French, from Italian bacchetto, diminutive of bacchio, from Latin baculum ‘staff’. baguette (sense 1 and sense 2) date from the 20th century.

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