croissant
noun /ˈkwæsɒ̃/
  /kwɑːˈsɑːnt/,  /krəˈsɑːnt/
 (from French)- a small sweet roll with a curved shape, eaten especially at breakfastTopics Foodc1Word Originlate 19th cent.: French from Old French creissant, from Latin crescere ‘grow’. The term had occasionally been recorded earlier as a variant of crescent.