croissant
noun/ˈkwæsɒ̃/
/kwɑːˈsɑːnt/, /krəˈsɑːnt/
(from French)- a small sweet roll with a curved shape, eaten especially at breakfastTopics Foodc1Word Originlate 19th cent.: French from Old French creissant, from Latin crescere ‘grow’. The term had occasionally been recorded earlier as a variant of crescent.
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