lagniappe

Example Sentences

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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

As a sort of lagniappe, an extra cherry on this sundae, we also meet Becky's mother, played by Stirling's own mother, Diana Rigg.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2016

Some of the children grew up and moved away, and other little girls came to buy candy and eat pink lagniappe fishes, and the shop still thrived.

From The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore