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LAN-yap
adjective
a gift; a gratuity
1920Kathleen'Look here,' said the Goblin, mildly, speaking from a blue cloud of Murray's Mixture, 'we must all sign a protocol, or a mandamus or a lagniappe or whatever you law men call it, not to steal a march. I think we'd all like to meet the real Kathleen. But we must give a bond to start fair and square, and nobody do anything that isn't authorized by the whole club.'1962The ReiversSo all his clumsy machinations to seduce and corrupt me were only corroboration. They were not even cumshaw, lagniappe.1995Memnoch the Devil...he gave me these words as some sort of little extra gift, what do we call it in New Orleans, lagniappe?Labels: Anne Rice, Christopher Morley, William Faulkner
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