lagniappe
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Habituating shoppers to being squeezed for every meager “amenity” sparks a new appreciation for the lagniappe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
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 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
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
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 Mark Twain
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