lagniappen.

1849 Knickerbocker 34 407/1 Ime sum pumpkins in that line; but he's a huckleberry above my persimmon, and right smart lanyope too, as them creole darkies say.

1853 ‘P. Paxton’ Stray Yankee in Texas 47 A dubious note that he had received as a ‘lanyappe’.

1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xliv. 450 We picked up one excellent word—a word worth travelling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word—‘lagniappe’. They pronounce it lanny-yap. It is Spanish—so they said.

1884 G. W. Cable Creoles of Louisiana (1885) xvi. 114 The pleasant institution of ñapa—the petty gratuity added, by the retailer, to anything bought—grew the pleasanter, drawn out into Gallicized lagnappe.

1936 W. Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! viii. 338 As lagniappe to the revenge as it were.

1947 S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! (1949) vii. 84 Since the ship was calling there anyway, the trip would be pure lagniappe, an extra dash of stardust unforeseen in our program.

1958 M. Mayer Madison Ave. xiv. 217 Finally, as lagniappe, Nielsen told the company the extent of ‘dealer push’.

1966 New Yorker 1 Oct. 186 This amusing architectural lagniappe.

1971 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7/4 And, as lagniappe, they threw in a list of ‘spurious words’ the scholars had come upon in dictionaries.

1972 New Yorker 7 Oct. 15/2 (advt.) 64 pieces of exquisite Limoges porcelain sculpture..with superb porcelain tiles to play on as lagniappe.