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
-
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
Example Sentences
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So I will not be sticking it to Subway and its sugar-loaf mountain.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2020
It appeared in the form of a sugar-loaf, spinning on its point, moving up the hill towards us, and enlarging as it came forward.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
Weird and fantastic he was, with the tails of his long coat flapping behind, and the sugar-loaf hat atop his head.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
He trudged along like a sugar-loaf turned upside down.
From In God's Way A Novel by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
Their grenadiers were dressed more apropos, having high sugar-loaf shaped caps, mounted with a great deal of brass, and projecting forward at the top, with long coats, and gaiters reaching above the knee.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
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
The cone was like a huge sugar loaf with the upper third cut off unevenly.
From The Web of the Golden Spider by Harrison Fisher
When his way led him over the backbone of 53 a ridge he could see, almost merged with the blue of the horizon, the smoky purple of a sugar loaf peak, which marked his objective.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
A sugar loaf weis 8 lb. and a quarter at 18d. per pound 12s. 4d.”
From England in the Days of Old by William Andrews
Laramie Peak looks like a vast sugar loaf.
From Journal of a Trip to California Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850 by Charles W. Smith
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