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hot cross buns

n. (hot cross bun English)

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Hot Cross Buns

"Hot Cross Buns" is an English language nursery rhyme, Easter song and street cry referring to the spiced English bun associated with Good Friday known as a Hot Cross Bun. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13029.

Usage examples of "hot cross buns".

For this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen.

She smelled something delicious: she was passing a patch of hot cross buns.

Glen spoiled me silly and everyone came to see me, including Jonah, Rosie, Gus, and Henry, bearing hot cross buns.

Cookie will stuff him full of hot cross buns and when he is old enough, Dower will teach him how to swear like a man.

Then Ruby smiled at him, and he melted like butter on one of his hot cross buns.