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beignet

NOUN
  1. a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar

How To Use beignet In A Sentence

  • To start, I had cured Glenarm salmon with Avruga caviar, served with dill and chive cream and an oyster beignet.
  • Last week he gave her the idea to offer beignets, deep-fried New Orleans doughnutlike things that you serve hot with confectioners’ sugar sprinkled on them. Sufficient Grace
  • Walked off the crawfish beignets and bread pudding while admiring the Greek Revival and Italian architecture on the Garden District Walking Tour.
  • As with the terrine, there was certainly a good-sized portion, but the beignets were a little short on garlic and a touch too dry for my taste.
  • Mix sugar and cinnamon together; gently roll beignets in mixture.
  • But what was more disheartening than watching a defense that a lot of people, myself included, believed had shown signs of evolving into a championship caliber unit, be picked apart like a beignet was the Patriots downright un-Patriotic play in all three phrases of the game, from poor throws to busted coverages to missed field goals. Boston.com Most Popular
  • When I saw the beignet chef toss that dough and make clouds of flour for that laughing little girl it surprised me how much it made me miss Ben.
  • The cafe serves chicory-laced coffee and square beignets dusted with powdered sugar, all day.
  • Well, a little powdered sugar on some fried dough, you've got what they call a beignet in New Orleans. CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2005
  • I ended up with about a dozen and a half beignets, which I sprinkled with powdered sugar using my grandmother's spring-loaded flour sifter while singing Jingle Bells, and then fed them to my neighbors.
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