baguette – Means “little rod” and is derived from Latin baculum, “staff, stick.” More…
dough – As in money, it almost certainly came from bread (another slang term for it), because bread is the staff of life. More…
staff – From Germanic stabaz, “stick”; its sense as “employees” is probably an allusion to the carrying of a staff of office by a person in charge. More…
miter, mitre, crosier – The tall, pointy hat of a bishop or abbot is the miter/mitre—from Greek mitra, “headdress”; a crosier is a bishop’s staff. More…