Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A conical mass of refined sugar.
- noun Hence A hat of a conical shape.
- noun A high conical hill: a common local name.
- Having the form of a sugar-loaf; having a high conical form: as, a sugar-loaf hat.
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- noun A
conical block ofrefined sugar , the form in which it was traditionallyexported from theCaribbean andBrazil from the 17th century to the 19th century.
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Examples
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Mr. Anderson and I ascended the top of one of the hills, which from the amazing fine prospect all round, I have named Panorama Hill; it has a sugar-loaf looking top, with a number of wolf-holes in it.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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They sailed north with the prevailing winds to the latitude of Bermuda about 32 degrees, then east at about 39 degrees to the Azores, with their high sugar-loaf peaks that are visible for many miles at sea.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In modern Egypt the term is applied to the tall sugar-loaf caps of felt affected mostly by regular Dervishes.
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They sailed north with the prevailing winds to the latitude of Bermuda about 32 degrees, then east at about 39 degrees to the Azores, with their high sugar-loaf peaks that are visible for many miles at sea.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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John Podgers, in a high sugar-loaf hat and short cloak, filled the opposite seat, and surveyed the auditory with a look of mingled pride and horror very edifying to see; while the hearers, with their heads thrust forward and their mouths open, listened and trembled, and hoped there was a great deal more to come.
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John Podgers, in a high sugar-loaf hat and short cloak, filled the opposite seat, and surveyed the auditory with a look of mingled pride and horror very edifying to see; while the hearers, with their heads thrust forward and their mouths open, listened and trembled, and hoped there was a great deal more to come.
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The old city of Angouleme is perched aloft on a crag like a sugar-loaf, overlooking the plain where the Charente winds away through the meadows.
Two Poets 2007
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The old city of Angouleme is perched aloft on a crag like a sugar-loaf, overlooking the plain where the Charente winds away through the meadows.
Two Poets 2007
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Morgiana went home in profound grief, it may be imagined, and could hardly refrain from bursting into tears when the sugar-loaf page asked whether master was coming home early, or whether he had taken his key; she lay awake tossing and wretched the whole night, and very early in the morning rose up, and dressed, and went out.
Mens Wives 2006
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Park as she was practising, yet the youthful hall-porter in the sugar-loaf buttons was instructed to deny her, and always declared that his mistress was gone out, with the most admirable assurance.
Mens Wives 2006
knitandpurl commented on the word sugar-loaf
"A woman of about forty is climbing the stairs; she is wearing a long imitation-leather raincoat and on her head a kind of felt hat shaped like a sugar-loaf, something like what one imagines a goblin's hat to be, divided into red and grey squares."
-- Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos, p 4
May 29, 2008
dontcry commented on the word sugar-loaf
A mountain in Maryland.
October 8, 2008