quignon
French
Un quignon de pain.
Etymology
Alteration of coignon, from coin, originally designating round shaped pastries, dialectal and historical variants include coignel, coigniaus, cuignet, cuignole, cuignot, kouign-amann.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki.ɲɔ̃/
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Noun
quignon m (plural quignons)
- heel (of bread)
Further reading
- “quignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.