beignet


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
beignet /ˈbɛnjeɪ/
noun chiefly N. Amer.
  • 1 a fritter.
  • 2 a square of fried dough eaten hot sprinkled with icing sugar.
– origin Fr., from archaic buyne ‘hump, bump’.
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