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

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

The directions are precise and most of the recipes include a lagniappe called “playing around.”

From New York Times

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

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