First recorded in 1795–1805
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One day she fancied a Bath bun; sent the new maid to the pastry-cook's.
From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles
A Bath bun was accordingly bought, carried home, and put carefully away in the doll's house.
From The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories by Walton, Amy
He trained me just once too often, but that was in London, in a shop near Oxford Circus, and it was a Bath bun that made me restless.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
The sausage roll, like the cup of chocolate, was soon followed by another; and a big Bath bun completed a debauch of which Dr. Bompas would undoubtedly have disapproved.
From The Camera Fiend by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
A Bath bun was accordingly bought, carried home, and put carefully away in the doll’s house.
From The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales by Goble, Warwick
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