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The bakery also offers a variety of pastries, including cinnamon rolls, chocolate croissants and muffins.—Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2025 Guests can perfect their skills making cocktails with the head bartender, swirling coffee with latte art with the head barista or making bread and croissants with the head baker.—Rhonda Richford, WWD, 20 Feb. 2025 Breakfast was a scene in the best sense—a parade of caftans and croissants.—Rachel Fletcher, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2025 The bite: The viral spiral croissant ($7.50) made Marvel Cake famous.—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 10 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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