Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

hot cross bun

hot cross bun (-bun`) , noun

A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; called also cross bun.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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