I've just encountered the word "lagniappe" in my reading. I'd never heard it before. It means, according to Wikipedia, "a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase (such as a thirteenth doughnut on purchase of a dozen)." I'd never heard that.
Even more intriguingly, at the end of the Wikipedia article comes this little nugget: "In Ireland, the term "luck penny" (or "luckpenny") denotes a lagniappe."
Never heard that, either!
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