French edit

 
Un quignon de pain.

Etymology edit

Alteration of coignon, from coin, originally designating round shaped pastries, dialectal and historical variants include coignel, coigniaus, cuignet, cuignole, cuignot, kouign-amann.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ki.ɲɔ̃/
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Noun edit

quignon m (plural quignons)

  1. heel (of bread)

Further reading edit