french bread

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   a crusty sourdough bread often baked in long slender tapered loaves or baguettes

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Questions about french bread

What does french bread mean?

french bread means "a crusty sourdough bread often baked in long slender tapered loaves or baguettes".

Is french bread a common word?

french bread is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.