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sugar-loaves

sugar-loaves is the plural of sugar-loaf.

Meaning of sugar-loaf

Noun

sugar-loaf (plural sugar-loaves)

  1. (historical) A block of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone, in which form it was traditionally exported from the Caribbean and Brazil from the 17th century to the 19th century.
  2. (obsolete) A hat shaped like a sugar-loaf.
    • why, do not I know you, grannam? and that sugar-loaf?1607, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Westward Ho

Questions about sugar-loaves

What is sugar-loaves the plural of?
Sugar-loaves is the plural of sugar-loaf.

Words near sugar-loaves in the dictionary

  1. sugar-house molasses
  2. sugar-houses
  3. sugar-loaf
  4. sugar-loaf hat
  5. sugar-loaf hats
  6. sugar-loaves
  7. sugar-maple
  8. sugar-maple borer
  9. sugar-maple borers
  10. sugar-maples
  11. sugar-mill

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