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lagniappe

noun as in benefit

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In addition to my Boozy Fish Stew, I am giving you a little happy St Patrick’s Day lagniappe: a stand alone recipe that turns out a good biscuit in no time flat.

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“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.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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