Sally Lunn

plural Sally Lunns · alternative Sally Lunn bun

1. A type of teacake or sweetened bun, leavened with yeast.

   A slice of Sally Lunn, still warm from its swaddling of serviette, is more to her liking.

   2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 131

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   I had the misfortune to lose a beloved brother in the prime of life, who dropt down dead as he was playing on the fiddle at Sir Robert Throgmorten's, after drinking a large quantity of Bath Waters, and eating a hearty breakfast of spungy hot rolls, or Sally Luns.

   1780, Philip Thicknesse, The Valetudinarian's Bath Guide

2. New ZealandA Boston bun.