Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rich, crescent-shaped roll of leavened dough or puff pastry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Crescent.
- noun A crescent.
- noun In armor, the gusset of plate when crescent-shaped: a form which was adopted in the early part of the fifteenth century, especially for the defense of the armpit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A flaky
roll orpastry in a form of acrescent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And this chocolate croissant is that much more delicious to the tune of King Charles 'Love Lust.
Courtney Boyd Myers: HypeM FT-International-Win! And Have You Heard of Grooveshark? Courtney Boyd Myers 2010
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And this chocolate croissant is that much more delicious to the tune of King Charles 'Love Lust.
Courtney Boyd Myers: HypeM FT-International-Win! And Have You Heard of Grooveshark? Courtney Boyd Myers 2010
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And this chocolate croissant is that much more delicious to the tune of King Charles 'Love Lust.
Courtney Boyd Myers: HypeM FT-International-Win! And Have You Heard of Grooveshark? Courtney Boyd Myers 2010
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And this chocolate croissant is that much more delicious to the tune of King Charles 'Love Lust.
Courtney Boyd Myers: HypeM FT-International-Win! And Have You Heard of Grooveshark? Courtney Boyd Myers 2010
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As the croissant is to France and as the doughnut is to America, the butter tart is to English Canada.
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Truthfully, I don’t know if I can say that a croissant is a “real” croissant if it isn’t made with real butter - and lots of it - but I am very impressed that Bittersweet was able to make Homemade Vegan Croissants without using a bit of butter.
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March 24, 2010, 11: 42 am kiwi dave says: yankee: To take a completely different example, I’m not under the impression that a Starbucks almond croissant is health food, but I didn’t realize, per kiwi dave above, that it contained 1,000 calories.
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To take a completely different example, I’m not under the impression that a Starbucks almond croissant is health food, but I didn’t realize, per kiwi dave above, that it contained 1,000 calories.
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One I treasure … pads off to his fridge to look for juice this morning … maybe sneak a croissant …
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The croissant is a solid creation, good for midtown, but keep in mind it cannot compete against those in non-midtown territories around Manhattan aka Patisserie Claude, La Bergamote.
seanahan commented on the word croissant
See freedom biscuit.
February 22, 2007
uselessness commented on the word croissant
Pronounced "kwaa SONE t," not "CROSS ent."
May 8, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word croissant
You've *heard* somebody pronounce it that way?! Ugh!!!
May 9, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word croissant
Why are all my favourite foods so fattening?
November 27, 2007
bilby commented on the word croissant
What, no cravings for organic, low-fat rhubarb?
November 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word croissant
Mmmmm, rhubarb!
November 27, 2007
fbharjo commented on the word croissant
as my son calls it "a boomerang biscuit"
August 10, 2008