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sugarloaf

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sug⋅ar⋅loaf

[shoog-er-lohf]
–noun, plural -loaves [-lohvz] .
1. a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
2. anything resembling this in shape.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME

sug⋅ar-loaf

[shoog-er-lohf]
–adjective
resembling a sugar-loaf.
Also, sugar-loafed.


Origin:
1600–10
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