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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

"Comme c'est joli!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt, indicating the rounded dome of Sugar Loaf Mountain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the dizzy whirl of his mind he clung to one thought: he must conceal the existence of the little group on Sugar Loaf Mountain at all costs.

From When the Sleepers Woke by Zagat, Arthur Leo

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