Cronut

[ kroh-nuht, -nuht ]

/ ˈkroʊ nət, -ˌnʌt /

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Trademark.

a brand name for a pastry made from croissant dough that has been deep-fried and shaped into a thick doughnutlike ring.

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Origin of Cronut

First recorded in 2010–13; cro(issant) + (dough)nut

Words nearby Cronut

Cronjé, cronk, Cronkhite-Canada syndrome, Cronkite, Cronus, Cronut, crony, cronyism, Cronyn, crook, crookback

How to use Cronut in a sentence

By the spring of 2014, cronut creator Dominique Ansel was on to the chocolate chip cookie shooter filed with milk.
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Just writing those last two sentences makes me feel better than a guy with sideburns describing his first Cronut on Yelp.
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