lagniappe

“After that it has all been lagniappe,” Jordan added, using a Louisiana French Creole word for a bonus, or extra gift.

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

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.”

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

The money that gets taxed is mostly what economists call excess returns and what a Louisianian might call lagniappe — profits in excess of what is necessary to motivate investment.