The French crescent-shaped pastry you are referring to is known as a croissant (pronounced Kre-sahnt or kre-sawnt in English and closer to Kre-swa- in French).
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They're called croissants. Pronounced as 'kwassons'
Probably a croissant. It is a crescent-moon shaped flaky buttery roll.
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It's a Croissant - pronounced 'kwazon'
The land is fertile and it is shaped like a crescent
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)
The land in Mesopotamia was fertile, and it happened to be shaped like a crescent.