lagniappe

Example Sentences

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There will undoubtedly be some who find nits to pick, but it’s hard to imagine any less-than-obsessed fans unhappy with this lagniappe, apart from its comparative brevity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

The point of the encore, he muses, is to give fans that feeling of something memorable, a little lagniappe to heighten the experience.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2022

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