hot cross bun

hot cross bun
noun
moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze
• Syn: ↑cross bun
• Hypernyms: ↑sweet roll, ↑coffee roll

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noun
: a raisin bun marked with a cross made of sugar frosting traditionally served on Good Friday

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a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
[1725-35]

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hot cross bun noun
A bun bearing a cross, customarily eaten on Good Friday
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Main Entry: ↑hot

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hot cross bun UK US noun [countable] [singular hot cross bun plural hot cross buns]
a sweet cake for one person, marked with a small cross on the top and traditionally eaten at Easter
Thesaurus: cakes and biscuitshyponym types of food or drinkhypernym

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hot cross bun,
a special bun marked with a cross, usually eaten during Lent.

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n. a bun marked with a cross and containing dried fruit, traditionally eaten during Lent

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ˌhot cross ˈbun [hot cross bun hot cross buns] noun
a small sweet bread roll that contains ↑currants and has a pattern of a cross on top, traditionally eaten in Britain around Easter

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