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sugar-loaf
or sug·ar-loafed
[ shoog-er-lohf ]
adjective
- resembling a sugar-loaf.
sugar loaf
noun
- a large conical mass of hard refined sugar See also loaf sugar
- something resembling this in shape
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sugar-loaf1
First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences
Occasionally there was a figure which had lost its capital, and so looked like a broken pillar, a sugar loaf, a pear.
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On his head, he wore a broad-brimmed sugar-loaf hat, garnished with a single feather.
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The shape was either of the sugar-loaf order or a cylinder surmounted by a truncated cone (Fig. 20).
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The moon had peeped over the shoulder of a sugar-loaf peak, and flooded the world in cobalt.
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XIX., be two bell-stones; d is part of a cone (a sugar-loaf upside down, with its point cut off); f part of a four-sided pyramid.
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