The two are very similar, but Croissants have more of a puff pastry dough making them extra flaky. Crescent rolls have more of a homemade roll texture.
un croissant (masc.)
'croissant' is the shape called crescent in English.
FRANCE France adopted the breakfast pastry from Austria, who called it the kipfel. The French called it the croissant because it is shaped as a crescent moon (croissant is French for crescent)
le croissant
Originally the Parisian croissant was a sweetened bread dough in a crescent shape; not a leavened laminated pastry. These days 'croissant' refers to the laminated yeasted pastry variety. Some people add almonds to the outside (almond croissant), or a small bar of chocolate to the middle (if the croissant is still crescent shape, it is a 'chocolate croissant' - if it is rolled in an oblong shape, it becomes a 'pain au chocolat').
A croissant.
The croissant was a Austrian pastry popularised by Queen Marie-Antoinnette who was Austrian. The croissant was not invented by french !!!!
Un croissant gets its name from its crescent shape.
It is called a crescent because it is the shape of a crescent. Some things that have the same shape are: a croissant a crescent moon ect.
It is called a crescent because it is the shape of a crescent. Some things that have the same shape are: a croissant a crescent moon ect.
a butter pastry. It is a croissant in french. The English word for it is croissant.
Croissant avec confiture