Definitions
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- noun A long, very slender
loaf ofcrisp bread smaller than abaguette , for example, grissini from Italy and rosquilletas from Spain.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup
Etymologies
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Examples
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But it seems like a breadstick should be masculine, doesn't it?
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But it seems like a breadstick should be masculine, doesn't it?
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Nine-year-old Hannah Goldberg, just like Jonathan Jewth, choked on a meatball and was saved by an English teacher who had learned the Heimlich in a first aid course; twelve-year-old Nirvana Blake choked on a breadstick and was rescued by a teacher's aide trained in the technique.
Bettina Elias Siegel: A Preventable Tragedy: Choking to Death in the School Cafeteria
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Liam pretend-swatted her with a breadstick, which Holly had bought from the bakery in town.
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The Outback Steakhouse will make your soul complete and you will dominate every room you enter in the Outback Steakhouse because you are the self appointed Outback Steakhouse King and you shall receive a crown of onion and a scepter of breadstick and you shall rule the hall of delicious meat.
The Outback Steakhouse Is The Greatest Place On The Face Of The Earth | Manolith
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"You can photograph me holding a breadstick," one of them exclaimed, "but I'm not gonna eat it."
Tony Sachs: Ecco Domani's Trio Of Wines And The Luxe Lab Bash
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I see a table of two, the man gnawing on a breadstick like a dog on a rawhide.
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I was melted Velveeta cheese in deep need of a … breadstick.
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First it kills the derivatives business, snapping its spine as you would a breadstick in a trendy boite.
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The chef's opening salvo was relatively small, a few Italian breadsticks ($6) around which was wrapped prosciutto from Parma; what I didn't realize until eating one was that he had dipped the breadstick into a "tonnato" tuna-caper aioli before wrapping it, for a unique taste.
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