Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bun indented with a cross, used especially on Good Friday.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; also, called
hot cross bun
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze
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Examples
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To complete the resemblance between a Moslem and a Christian festival, we have dishes of the day, fish, Shurayk, the cross-bun, and a peculiarly indigestible cake, called in Egypt Kahk,4 the plum-pudding of Al-Islam.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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At a recent meeting of the British Archæological Association, Mr.H. Syer Cuming, F.S.A., said it was only a few years since he saw a woman drink a little grated cross-bun in water, to cure a sore throat, and that, at the time he was speaking, twenty stale cross-buns, strung on
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He waved a gay farewell, threw his arm round the waist of the hot cross-bun, and waltzed out of the Colonel's vision.
The Prodigal Father 1907
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Round came the false nose again, and this time the empurpled figure unclasped one hand of the hot cross-bun and waved a genial greeting as they stampeded by.
The Prodigal Father 1907
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This object is described in hieroglyphic dictionaries as a "cake," and it certainly does resemble a kind of hot cross-bun frequently represented in pictures of offerings; but the sign (pronounced nu) is really intended for a walled town, with
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On April 18, (being Good-Friday,) I found him at breakfast, in his usual manner upon that day, drinking tea without milk, and eating a cross-bun to prevent faintness; we went to St. Clement's church, as formerly.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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On April 18, (being Good-Friday,) I found him at breakfast, in his usual manner upon that day, drinking tea without milk, and eating a cross-bun to prevent faintness; we went to St. Clement's church, as formerly.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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On April 18, (being Good-Friday,) I found him at breakfast, in his usual manner upon that day, drinking tea without milk, and eating a cross-bun to prevent faintness; we went to St. Clement’s church, as formerly.
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a little lady attired to represent a hot cross-bun.
The Prodigal Father 1907
hernesheir commented on the word cross-bun
Get them while they're hot.
November 30, 2010