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scone
noun
a light cake, often quadrant-shaped and resembling a baking powder biscuit, orig. baked on a griddle, and served with butter
village in E Scotland northeast of Perth: site of an abbey that contained the stone () on which Scottish kings before 1296 were crowned: removed by Edward I and placed under the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey, the stone was returned to Scotland in 1996
See scone in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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