baguette

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ba=guette

CIDE DICTIONARY

baguette, n. [F. baguette, prop. a rod It. bacchetta, fr. L. baculum, baculu stick, staff.].

•  A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

baguette, n.
1 a long narrow French loaf.
2 a gem cut in a long rectangular shape.
3 Archit. a small moulding, semicircular in section.

Etymology

F f. It. bacchetto dimin. of bacchio f. L baculum staff