Definition of scone
:a rich quick bread cut into usually triangular shapes and cooked on a griddle or baked on a sheet
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The shop offers baked goods including cinnamon rolls, cheese rolls, and scones and creates seven in-house flavors of cream cheese.
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Your best bet for scoring a sourdough loaf, croissant, or scone, is by ordering online ahead of time.
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Home cook Laura Streator of Brookfield loves the flavor and aroma of vanilla, especially in her scones and sugar cookies.
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Popular items such as the bakery's peach cake, along with scones, danishes, bagels and the 25-cent doughnut holes, will remain on the menu.
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An array of treats, like chocolate-lavender brownies, chocolate-halvah cookies, cinnamon sticky buns and scones, baked from scratch, will be available.
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In the a.m., hit the pint-sized café by the entrance that's stocked with scones and brownies from local favorite Jane.
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For your sweet tooth, there’s new strawberry, banana and s’mores puffle cups, vegan soft serve and waffle ice cream, and old favorites deep-fried Oreos, strawberry shortcake, scones with jam and elephant ears.
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Richard Speight Jr. (Gabriel) will MC the event, and Ruth Connell (Rowena) is hosting a mega-coven event with scones on the last day of the convention.
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Origin and Etymology of scone
perhaps from Dutch schoonbrood fine white bread, from schoon pure, clean + brood bread
Scone
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geographical name
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Definition of Scone
locality in eastern Scotland northeast of Perth population 3713
SCONE Defined for English Language Learners
scone
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Definition of scone for English Language Learners
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: a small, often sweet bread that sometimes has pieces of dried fruit in it
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