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Sugar Loaf Mountain

British  

noun

  1. Portuguese name: Pão de Açúcar.  a mountain in SE Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro on Guanabara Bay. Height: 390 m (1280 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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After weeks of heavy rain, the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain collapsed and smothered the community below it.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2017

At the time, dozens of climbers scaled Rio de Janeiro’s Sugar Loaf Mountain, from which they hung an enormous jersey with the words “The 2014 World Cup is Ours.”

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2013

In Rio, where he was comfortably ensconced last week in a $300-a-month apartment with a view of famed Sugar Loaf Mountain, Belle blandly denied that he had stolen a dime.

From Time Magazine Archive

With its vales of 200-year-old oak trees and views of Great Sugar Loaf Mountain and Dublin Bay, the course fits nicely with its stately clubhouse and the neighboring castle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several of these institutions are built on the slopes of the hills, and on the highest point, Sugar Loaf Mountain, is a sanatorium.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

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