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noun, feminine

lagniappe

/la.ɲap/

noun, feminine/la.ɲap/plural: lagniappes

tip (extra money given to, for example, a waiter in appreciation of service); lagniappe (extra or unexpected gift or benefit to, for example, a customer); windfall, unexpected turn of good fortune

Borrowed from Spanish la ñapa, a variant of yapa, from Quechua yapa (“addition, increase supplement”), yapay (“addition; sum”).