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sugar loaf

sugar loaf is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of sugar loaf

pluralsugar loaves

Questions about sugar loaf

What is sugar loaf the alternative spelling of?
Sugar loaf is the alternative spelling of sugar-loaf.

Words near sugar loaf in the dictionary

  1. Sugar Land
  2. Sugar Lander
  3. Sugar Landers
  4. sugar lice
  5. sugar lips
  6. sugar loaf
  7. Sugar Loaf Island
  8. sugar loaves
  9. sugar louse
  10. sugar lump
  11. sugar lumps

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