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sugar-loaf

or ܲ·-Dzڱ

[ shoog-er-lohf ]

adjective

  1. resembling a sugar-loaf.


sugar loaf

noun

  1. a large conical mass of hard refined sugar See also loaf sugar
  2. something resembling this in shape
“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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sugar-loaf1

First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences

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

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The hills even have the almost Chinese sugar-loaf effect found in such paintings as The Virgin of the Rocks.

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The mountain that is the most bold and alpine in the county, and that forms an exception to the general contour of its hills, is the famous one called the “Sugar-loaf,” near Bray.

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Now, says the old Man, for a Hat; I have a special Beaver I bought along with these Cloaths, which he also produced; it had a Crown as high, and in Form of a Sugar-loaf, with Brims as broad as a Tea-table; the young Gentleman thanked him heartily for it also.

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As they proceeded northward, the fog, which had hampered their movements, clearing away, they observed “a rocky and mountainous land, in form of a sugar-loaf,” its summit, covered with snow, appearing, as it were, above the clouds.

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