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Croissants and other pastries will also be available.

From Seattle Times • May 9, 2023

Chocolate-Almond Croissants If almond croissants are an improvement on classic croissants, chocolate almond croissants are even double the fun.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2022

Croissants were out of stock, they were told.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

Croissants are notoriously difficult: if you’re not careful as you fold the butter into the dough, you can easily end up with something stiff and hard, rather than a flaky, airy, multilayered marvel.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

Croissants within a border A. Treworgy is owed by M. Kendal, and endowed with a pleasant and profitable fishing and command of the riuer, which flitteth vnder his house.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard