- (also French loaf, French stick)
a loaf of white bread in the shape of a long thick stick （法国）脆皮白面包棒 a small baguette or part of one that is filled with food and eaten as a sandwich 脆皮夹馅面包棒；三明治小面包棒 a cheese baguette 奶酪夹心小面包棒
Word Originearly 18th cent. (in the architectural sense): from French, from Italian bacchetto, diminutive of bacchio, from Latin baculum ‘staff’. Current senses date from the 20th cent.