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Ficelle

France

A ficelle (French pronunciation: [fisɛl] ) is a type of French bread loaf, made with yeast and similar to a baguette but much thinner. The word ficelle means "string" in French.

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A ficelle (French pronunciation: [fisɛl] ) is a type of French bread loaf, made with yeast and similar to a baguette but much thinner. The word ficelle means "string" in French. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ficelle”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Ficelle is bread, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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