lagniappe

Example Sentences

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The Post offered a lexical lagniappe in the form of “graupel” as reported in the March 27 Metro article “Winter’s remnants linger on Saturday.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

The directions are precise and most of the recipes include a lagniappe called “playing around.”

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2021

In his essential book "Imbibe," David Wondrich calls the Sazerac — created in the Crescent City before the turn of the 20th century — "New Orleans' own liquid lagniappe."

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2021

Served as a lagniappe “course” to the meal, it’s one of the little touches the chef says helps make reveillon customers into reveillon regulars.

From Washington Times • Dec. 1, 2018

When a child or a servant buys something in a shop—or even the mayor or the governor, for aught I know—he finishes the operation by saying— 'Give me something for lagniappe.'

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Twain, Mark