Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·French ·1890s
Croissant
from croissant
- Meaning
- A crescent-shaped flaky pastry.
- Source word
- croissant
- Route into English
- French *croissant* (crescent) → English via 20th-century bakery culture. The pastry itself is Austrian in origin (a Viennese *kipferl*); it became French when a Viennese baker opened a Paris shop in 1839. English borrowed the French form.
- Arrived
- 1890s
From French
Beyond the Norman conquest's Old French foundation, English kept borrowing from French for art, cuisine, fashion, and diplomacy throughout the modern period.
English borrows.
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