Definition of "cross-bun" []

• A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; also, called hot cross bun, even when not hot. (noun)

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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."
• "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"
• "He waved a gay farewell, threw his arm round the waist of the hot cross-bun, and waltzed out of the Colonel's vision."