Croissant
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late 19th century: French (see crescent). The term had occasionally been recorded earlier as a variant of crescent .
wiktionary
Borrowed from French croissant(“crescent”), present participle of croître(“to grow”). Doublet of crescent.
etymonline
croissant (n.)
"buttery, flaky puff-pastry roll named for its crescent shape," 1899, see crescent.
