Synonyms for scone
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : skohn, skon |
| Phonetic Transcription : skoÊŠn, skÉ’n |
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
- 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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