shape of a wedge with circular edge. The broad lowland bonnet was called a " scone " or " scone-cap " from its shape. The word appears to have been a shortened form of a Low Ger. Schonbrot, i.e. fine
loaf with two acute and two obtuse angles. The Hamburg dialect word schonroggen, fine rye, was adopted into Swedish and Icelandic in the sense of biscuit.
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