No. 8,730 in French
baguettes
Thin bread loaves or wooden sticks (e.g., drumsticks or chopsticks).
In a sentence
J'aime manger des baguettes avec du beurre.
I like eating baguettes with butter.
Here, 'baguettes' refers to the long, crusty bread common in French cuisine.
Il joue de la musique avec des baguettes.
He plays music with drumsticks.
In this sentence, 'baguettes' means drumsticks used for playing percussion instruments.
Pour manger les sushis, on utilise des baguettes.
To eat sushi, one uses chopsticks.
The word 'baguettes' here refers to chopsticks typically used for eating Asian dishes.
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