Cronut

[kroh-nuh t, -nuht]

Trademark.

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

Origin of Cronut

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

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Examples from the Web for cronut

Contemporary Examples of cronut

By the spring of 2014, cronut creator Dominique Ansel was on to the chocolate chip cookie shooter filed with milk.
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Daniel Gross
July 8, 2014
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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Benjamin Anastas
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