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scone definition

scone (skōn, skän)

noun

a light cake, often quadrant-shaped and resembling a baking powder biscuit, orig. baked on a griddle, and served with butter

Etymology: Scot, contr. < ? MDu schoonbrot, fine bread < schoon (akin to Ger schön, OE sciene: see sheen), beautiful + brot, bread

Scone definition

Scone (sko̵̅o̅n, skōn)

village in E Scotland northeast of Perth: site of an abbey that contained the stone (Stone of Scone) 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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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