1
: fritter
2
: a light square doughnut usually sprinkled with powdered sugar
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The Broken Bean offers build-your-own breakfast sandwiches to pair with a specialty drink and a side of beignets.
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Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
Here are six other anecdotes from a historic soccer day in Minnesota:
A crowd unlike any other
Normally, the only signs of a game at Allianz Field two hours before kickoff are stadium workers trickling in for their shifts and the faint scent of one vendor’s beignets wafting outside the gates.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 11 May 2025
At delicious San Lorenzo, inside Hotel St. Vincent, Italian classics get reimagined with Creole ingredients—catfish schnitzel, caviar beignets—under chandeliers and Corinthian columns.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The pancakes, waffles and beignets are impressive, in flavors such as berry, S’mores, banana split and cinnamon roll.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2025
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Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
Here are six other anecdotes from a historic soccer day in Minnesota:
A crowd unlike any other
Normally, the only signs of a game at Allianz Field two hours before kickoff are stadium workers trickling in for their shifts and the faint scent of one vendor’s beignets wafting outside the gates.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 11 May 2025
At delicious San Lorenzo, inside Hotel St. Vincent, Italian classics get reimagined with Creole ingredients—catfish schnitzel, caviar beignets—under chandeliers and Corinthian columns.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The pancakes, waffles and beignets are impressive, in flavors such as berry, S’mores, banana split and cinnamon roll.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for beignet
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“Beignet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beignet. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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