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Definition of Cross bun
1. Noun. Moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross Bun
Literary usage of Cross bun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"We sailed that afternoon at the mystic hour of one— Remarkably nice young men
were the crew of the " Hot cross bun." I'm sorry to say that I've heard that ..."
2. Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and by William Carew Hazlitt (1905)
"It is still a common belief that one cross-bun should be kept for luck's sake
from Good Friday to Good Friday. It seems that, in Dorsetshire, ..."
3. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most (1878)
"(I do not mean that tempests threaten'd the Hot cross bun : In that case I don't
know whatever we should have done !) After a fortnight's cruise, ..."
4. The fireside encyclopaedia of poetry: Comprising the best poems of the most by Henry Troth Coates, Rea (1881)
"We sail'd that afternoon at the mystic hour of one,— Remarkably nice young men
were the crew of the Hot cross bun, I'm sorry to say that I've heard that ..."
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