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sugar-loaf

or sug·ar-loafed

[ shoog-er-lohf ]

adjective

  1. resembling a sugar-loaf.


sugar loaf

noun

  1. a large conical mass of hard refined sugar See also loaf sugar
  2. something resembling this in shape
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

On his head, he wore a broad-brimmed sugar-loaf hat, garnished with a single feather.

The shape was either of the sugar-loaf order or a cylinder surmounted by a truncated cone (Fig. 20).

The moon had peeped over the shoulder of a sugar-loaf peak, and flooded the world in cobalt.

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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