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sal·ly lunn

(săl′ē lŭn′)

A somewhat sweet bread leavened with yeast.

[After Sally Lunn, 18th-century British baker.]

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Sally Lunn

(lʌn)

(Cookery) a flat round cake made from a sweet yeast dough, usually served hot

[C19: said to be named after an 18th-century English baker who invented it]

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sal′ly lunn′

(lʌn)

n. (sometimes caps.)

a loaf cake or tea bun, made with yeast and slightly sweetened.

[1770–80; allegedly named after a woman who sold them in Bath, England, in the late 18th century]

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Sally Lunn - a flat round slightly sweet teacake usually served hot

teacake - any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea

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He congratulated himself that he had formed the plan of going to see Miss Sally Lunn this afternoon, and that, as a consequence, he had brought with him these propitiatory delicacies: he was certainly a lucky fellow; indeed, it was always likely Providence should be fonder of him than of other apprentices, and since he WAS to be interrupted, why, an idiot was preferable to any other sort of witness.

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Toto and Billina followed behind them, behaving very well, and a little way down the street they came to a handsome residence where Aunt Sally Lunn lived.

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"The Saga of Sally Lunns" is novel from Alwyn Dow who tells the chronicles of Avon/Somerset Police officer Sue Parker, who copes with the impact that she faces as she rises up through the forces and around the world, coping with the mix of career and life along the way.