Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rich, crescent-shaped roll of leavened dough or puff pastry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Crescent.
- n. A crescent.
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French croissant ("crescent"), present participle of croître (“to grow”). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French creissant, croissant, crescent; see crescent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And this chocolate croissant is that much more delicious to the tune of King Charles 'Love Lust.”
“As the croissant is to France and as the doughnut is to America, the butter tart is to English Canada.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One I treasure … pads off to his fridge to look for juice this morning … maybe sneak a croissant …”
“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.”
“The croissant is the only one worth mentioning, but the basket came with jams and a perfectly piped squiggle of vanilla bean butter!”
“The croissant was a hefty thing, and this concerned me: large ones are often reminiscent of the Costco variety.”
“Anyway, I did eat two slices of this and it did taste like a sauceless pizza on a sweet, mushy croissant, which is not necccessarily a bad thing.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘croissant’.
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food collection
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Names of colors in fashion and advertising
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
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being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
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words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
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They Roll Off The Tongue
Words that are just fun to say. Entirely subjective, but I like 'em regardless. A complement to the list They Stumble Off The Tongue.
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Life's a beach
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to bee or not to bee
The omission of a sound, letter, or syllable from a word.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for croissant.
fbharjo as my son calls it "a boomerang biscuit" Aug 10, 2008
trivet Mmmmm, rhubarb! Nov 27, 2007
bilby What, no cravings for organic, low-fat rhubarb? Nov 27, 2007
sonofgroucho Why are all my favourite foods so fattening? Nov 27, 2007
jennarenn You've *heard* somebody pronounce it that way?! Ugh!!! May 9, 2007
uselessness Pronounced "kwaa SONE t," not "CROSS ent." May 8, 2007
seanahan See freedom biscuit. Feb 22, 2007