sugar loaf noun phr. ['ʃʊgǝ lǝʊf] LME.[from SUGAR noun + LOAF noun1.]1. A moulded conical mass of hard refined sugar.
LME.2. transf. A thing having the shape of a sugar loaf;
spec. (a) Hist. (in full
sugar-loaf hat) a conical hat, pointed, rounded or flat at the top, worn during various periods until the early 19th cent.;
(b) a high conical hill or mountain (also more fully
sugar-loaf hill,
sugar-loaf mountain).
L16. ■ sugar-loafed adjective shaped like a sugar loaf
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