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Courtesy of La Dolce Vita Day Two: Take a bougie bop through Beverly Hills and grab a glass (or two)
Before heading east, grab a croissant at Santa Monica’s Petitgrain Boulangerie, which recently won the heart (and taste buds) of the New York Times.—Sheila Yasmin Marikar, AFAR Media, 19 Mar. 2025 Those trays also appeared at breakfast and came with yogurt, compote and granola cups, avocado toast and croissants with pats of butter in the shape of a smiley face.—Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 Feb. 2025 Black Box Bakery Your first introduction to Black Box Bakery was probably its cube croissants that went viral on social media.—Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2025 The bite: Look for small munchies on the menu like a pretzel croissant with bacon and onion or a lemon poppyseed muffin.—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for croissant
Word History
Etymology
French, literally, crescent, from Middle French, from present participle of croistre to grow, from Latin crescere — more at crescent
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