lagniappe

Example Sentences

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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

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

“My way to break down barriers, connect with people, and start to see each other on a human level: a bit of lagniappe, as we say in Louisiana.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2020

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 Twain, Mark