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Croissant vs Baguette - What's the difference?

croissant | baguette |

As nouns the difference between croissant and baguette

is that croissant is a flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent while baguette is a narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.

croissant

English

(wikipedia croissant)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.

    • Synonyms

    * crescent roll, crescent

    Anagrams

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    baguette

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia baguette) (en noun)
  • a narrow, relatively long rectangular shape
  • a gem cut in such a shape
  • a variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape
  • (architecture) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
  • (zoology) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.