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PAVING STONE, n. A type of iced bun (Ags. 2000s).Edb. 1990 James Allan Ford in Joy Hendry Chapman 59 43:
You used to be able to buy paving stones in a dairy in Leith. They were flat and heavy, with a little icing on top, and Tommy Morris told me they were the best cookies in the world and that you could not buy them anywhere else.Ags. 1995 Courier 18 Mar :
Paving stones, puggie buns, sair heids, snuff-boxes, and nickies/nickeys. I was intrigued the other day to learn that a favourite cake of mine was called a snuff-box!
