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Courtesy of The Columns hotel Day 3: French croissants, Japanese knives, and Chinese noodles
Yawn, stretch, and remember . . .—Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025 Like 8/10 times the chocolate croissant would be with ham and cheese.—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 The ube halaya croissant is filled with purple yam jam and sweet yam cream.—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024 So buying myself two croissants the morning after my son slept through the night after a week of nightly wakeups was right for me.—Channon Hodge, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025 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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