sugar-loaf

or sug·ar-loafed

[ shoog-er-lohf ]

adjective

1. resembling a sugar-loaf.

sugar loaf

noun

1. See loaf sugar
   a large conical mass of hard refined sugar See also loaf sugar
2. something resembling this in shape

Word History and Origins

Origin of sugar-loaf¹

First recorded in 1600–10

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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