sugarloaf
a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
anything resembling this in shape.
Origin of sugarloaf
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or sug·ar-loafed
resembling a sugar-loaf.
Origin of sugar-loaf
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How to use sugarloaf in a sentence
Occasionally there was a figure which had lost its capital, and so looked like a broken pillar, a sugar loaf, a pear.
Overland | John William De ForestOn his head, he wore a broad-brimmed sugar-loaf hat, garnished with a single feather.
The Pickwick Papers | Charles DickensThe shape was either of the sugar-loaf order or a cylinder surmounted by a truncated cone (Fig. 20).
Armour & Weapons | Charles John FfoulkesThe moon had peeped over the shoulder of a sugar-loaf peak, and flooded the world in cobalt.
The Code of the Mountains | Charles Neville BuckXIX., 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.
The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) | John Ruskin
British Dictionary definitions for sugar loaf
a large conical mass of hard refined sugar: See also loaf sugar
something resembling this in shape
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