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• sugar-loaf
  sugar-loaf

  adjective

  resembling a sugar-loaf.
• sugar loaf
  sugar loaf

  noun

  a large conical mass of hard refined sugar See also loaf sugar

sugar-loaf

American  

[shoog-er-lohf] / ˈʃʊg ərˌloʊf /

Or sugar-loafed

adjective

1. resembling a sugar-loaf.

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sugar loaf British  

noun

1. a large conical mass of hard refined sugar See also loaf sugar

2. something resembling this in shape

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Etymology

Origin of sugar-loaf

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

So I will not be sticking it to Subway and its sugar-loaf mountain.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2020

Just then a tall, gaunt man appeared from behind the sugar-loaf rock, and hailing the boat, pointed to a narrow strip of beach some yards away to his left.

From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by Percy-Groves, J.

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

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

Yvonne could see nothing of him beyond the square outline of his shoulders and that of his sugar-loaf hat.

From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness