sugar-loaf
adjective
resembling a sugar-loaf.
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sugar-loaf
American
[shoog-er-lohf]
/ ˈʃʊg ərˌloʊf /
Or
sugar-loafed
adjective
sugar loaf
British
noun
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a large conical mass of hard refined sugar See also loaf sugar
-
something resembling this in shape
Etymology
Origin of sugar-loaf
First recorded in 1600–10
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So I will not be sticking it to Subway and its sugar-loaf mountain.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2020
From the top of the kopje he could be seen going out; then a dozen men left the ridge and went across to the sugar-loaf hill, opening fire from there.
From Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Moulin, Louis Eug?ne du
We were now in the latitude of Jan Mayen; the tall mountain cone of that strange island we could distinctly see, raised like an immense shining sugar-loaf against the sky’s blue.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon
The moon had peeped over the shoulder of a sugar-loaf peak, and flooded the world in cobalt.
From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville
The region on the right of the road from Durban to Maritzberg, after Pinetown, a town midway between them, has been passed, is remarkable for its fantastic assemblage of sugar-loaf hills.
From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise
A chipped crockery bowl appeared from the pantry, alongside the butter and eggs and milk and the sugar loaf and the nutmeg grater and the small amber flask.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
It bore north 25° east, about ninety miles distant, rose in the form of a sugar loaf to a very great height, and was covered with snow.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers by Iles, George
No waste land on it, all clay bottom, except about two acres, a sand ridge, resembling the side of a sugar loaf.
From The Bark Covered House by Nowlin, William
A stone held between his feet, cut in the shape of a sugar loaf, whilst a rope fastened him to his boat, helped him to descend more rapidly.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
On their heads, when they go out upon any excursion, particularly whaling or fishing, they wear a kind of cap or bonnet in form not unlike a large sugar loaf with the top cut off.
From The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by Jewitt, John Rodgers
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