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n. - A square, very rich drop friedcake dusted with confectioners' sugar.

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  • Well, a little powdered sugar on some fried dough, you've got what they call a beignet in New Orleans.
  •   A beignet is a kind of fried French-style doughnut. "
  • There's a tiny lump of foie on the inside of this sweet beignet which is pate a choux dough, deep-fried, right?
  • We can have a beignet, instead we get this lousy hat?
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  • Word of the 2008 Nat. Spelling Bee finals.[pellingbeeshirleys!Field2]
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