sug|ar-loaf

sug|ar-loaf
1. a solid, cone-shaped mass of hard, refined sugar. It is the form in which sugar was generally sold during most of the period from the late Middle Ages to the middle of the 1800's.
2. something shaped like a sugar loaf, especially: a) a high, cone-shaped hill: »

here and there the outline of a wooded sugar loaf in black (Robert L. Stevenson).

 b) a tall, cone-shaped hat.
sug|ar-loaf «SHUG uhr LOHF», adjective.
shaped like a sugar loaf.

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