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The ham and cheese croissant is $6.75, the cappuccino is $4.—Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025 Pour mixture over croissants and pears, ensuring they are fully submerged.—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024 After operating out of a kiosk for a few years, Ms. Yee opened a stand-alone space in 2024, serving all-vegan croissants, Danishes, scones and more.—Meghan McCarron, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024 At Pizza Studio Tamaki, one of the popular orders now is the butter chicken pie.
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Buttery laminated dough treats such as croissants and pain au chocolat have been on an unstoppable run in the baked-goods world.—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for croissant
Word History
Etymology
French, literally, crescent, from Middle French, from present participle of croistre to grow, from Latin crescere — more at crescent
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