Croissant

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  • noun. A rich, crescent-shaped roll of leavened dough or puff pastry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Crescent.
  • noun. A crescent.
  • noun. In armor, the gusset of plate when crescent-shaped: a form which was adopted in the early part of the fifteenth century, especially for the defense of the armpit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
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  • noun. very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll
  • Word Usage
    "And this chocolate croissant is that much more delicious to the tune of King Charles 'Love Lust."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bun  roll  
    Rhyme
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    Same Context
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    bagel  bagels  bun  cereal  confectionery  
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