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

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.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2021

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

Whyn't you ax fur des one lagniappe o' sugar-plums, baby, bein's it's Christmas?

From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Stuart, Ruth McEnery