Synonyms for scone

Grammar : Noun

Spell : skohn, skon

Phonetic Transcription : skoʊn, skɒn

Définition of scone

Origin : "thin, flat soft cake," 1510s, Scottish, probably shortened from Dutch schoon brood "fine bread," from Middle Dutch schoonbroot, from schoon, scone "bright, beautiful" (see sheen) + broot (see bread (n.)).

As in bun : noun baked roll

Example sentences :

Maggie had baked a scone and handed it to him; then, after he had bitten it, he handed it back.
Extract from : « Terribly Intimate Portraits » by Nol Coward

(here we get hold of historic fact) placed it at Scone in the ninth century.
Extract from : « Little Folks » by Various

He attended at the crowning of Charles at Scone, January 1, 1651.
Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Rutherford » by Samuel Rutherford

Edward then harried the land and carried off the Stone of Destiny from Scone.
Extract from : « Britain in the Middle Ages » by Florence L. Bowman

At this time Ormsby, the justiciary, was holding court at Scone.
Extract from : « Cassell's History of England, Vol. I (of 9) » by Anonymous

"Splendidly," Jim said, taking his cup, and retiring from the tea-table with a scone.
Extract from : « Back To Billabong » by Mary Grant Bruce

He dropped on a knee and drew a scone and some fish from the ashes.
Extract from : « Romany of the Snows » by Gilbert Parker

Charles the Second was crowned by the Scotch at Scone, in 1651.
Extract from : « History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia » by Charles Campbell

Cut me a scone, Val, and put butter on it, but not too much.
Extract from : « Vanitas » by Vernon Lee

It was precisely on this tenth scone that he counted for his dinner.
Extract from : « The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia » by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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