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ˈsugar-loaf
[f. sugar n. + loaf n.1 3.]
1. A moulded conical mass of hard refined sugar (now rarely made).
1422Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 59 In 1 Sugyrlaffe, 8s. 4d. 1452Paston Lett. I. 236, I pray yow that ye woll vouchesaff to send me an other sugor loff, for my old is do. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 380 Teneriffa is..a greate hyghe picke lyke a suger lofe. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. i. 69 b, Wearing on their heads a hygh yealow hatte made after the fashion of a suger loofe. 1604[? Chettle] Wit of Woman G 4, Giue the gentlewoman a leashe of angells, to buy a sugar loafe. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxxiii. 247 A Gardiner's watering Pot shap'd conically, or like a Sugar-Loaf. 1707Lady G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (S.H.S.) 69 For a suger lofe {pstlg}3. 7s. 6d. 1800B. Moseley Treat. Sugar (ed. 2) 113 The blue paper for covering sugar-loaves. 1835App. Munic. Corpor. Rep. iv. 2896 (Kingston-upon-Thames), The High Steward..is entitled to 18 sugar loaves every year. These are worth about 9l., and are usually distributed in charity. 1876W. H. G. Kingston Banks Amazon 112 The snow-capped, truncated peak of Cotopaxi, looking like a vast sugar-loaf.
2. transf. A thing having the shape of a sugar-loaf.
a. Usually sugar-loaf-hat (see 3): A conical hat, pointed, rounded or flat at the top, worn during the Tudor and Stuart periods and after the French Revolution.
1607Dekker & Webster Westw. Hoe v. iii, Do not I know you, grannam? and that sugar-loaf?
b. A high conical hill.
a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 184 Till they arrived at the top of the sugar-loaf, or highest pile of the mountain. 1715Phil. Trans. XXIX. 318 The white Cloud still hiding the greatest part of the Sugar-loaf [sc. Teneriffe]. 1862Chambers' Encycl. IV. 745/2 The rock [of Gibraltar], at its highest point, the Sugar Loaf, attains an elevation of 1439 feet above the sea. 1879Stevenson Trav. Donkey (1886) 30 The outline of a wooded sugar-loaf in black.
c. A kind of cabbage.
1766Complete Farmer 7 P 4/1, I have not one cabbage this year of the sort I intended to have; what I have being chiefly sugar-loaf, the seedsman having deceived me. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 28 Apr. 1777 The savoys and sugar-loaves were soon gone. 1842E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 15 When you plant out your cabbages at the outset, first put a row of early Yorks, then a row of Sugar-loafs.
d. A variety of pine-apple, Ananas pyramidalis.
1796Nemnich Polyglot.-Lex. vi. 910 Sugar-loaf pineapple, Bromelia ananas. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 600 The Brown Sugar-loaf. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 343 The sweeter and more juicy ‘sugar-loaf’ is preferred in England.
e. A species of fossilized sea-urchin.
1862Chambers' Encycl. IV. 578/1 Galerites. [The name] popularly given to them..‘Sugar-loaves’, is descriptive of the elongated and more or less conical shape of their shell.
3. attrib. and Comb. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a sugar-loaf, as sugar-loaf bonnet, sugar-loaf button, sugar-loaf cabbage (see 2 c), sugar-loaf cap, sugar-loaf cornea, sugar-loaf crown, sugar-loaf eminence, sugar-loaf hat (see 2 a), sugar-loaf head, sugar-loaf hill (see 2 b), sugar-loaf mountain (see 2 b), sugar-loaf pine (see 2 d), sugar-loaf pippin, sugar-loaf rock, sugar-loaf-shape, sugar-loaf stone, sugar-loaf-stump, sugar-loaf yew; used for sugar-loaves or loaf-sugar, as sugar-loaf form, sugar-loaf mould, sugar-loaf paper; parasynthetic and similative, as sugar-loaf-like, sugar-loaf-shaped adjs.; sugar-loaf page, a page wearing sugar-loaf buttons; sugar-loaf sea, ‘high turbulent waves with little wind’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.); sugar-loaf tool, a tool with an end of conical shape used in seal-engraving to smooth the surfaces of shields.
1885Dillon Fairholt's Cost. in Eng. I. 403 The high *sugar-loaf bonnet of the French peasants.
1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. ii. vi, A small white-faced boy, who was called ‘page’ to aunt Eleanor..who..wore..two hundred and forty-eight white *sugar-loaf buttons on his jacket.
1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 130 *Sugar-loaf cabbage. 1838Penny Cycl. XI. 75/1 Salads go to market as soon as they are of sufficient size, and sugar-loaf cabbages succeed them.
1809Malkin Gil Blas xii. i. ⁋3 *Sugar-loaf caps of paper.
1885Dillon Fairholt's Cost. in Eng. II. 237 The tall *sugar-loaf crown and broad brim.
1867Chambers' Encycl. IX. 192/1 When it has been sufficiently concentrated..it is run into the *sugar-loaf forms.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 165/1 Apex,..a *suger-loafe hat: a coppid tanke hat. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. xviii. (1860) 402 He usually wore a high sugar-loaf hat with a narrow brim. 1885Dillon Fairholt's Cost. in Eng. I. 402 He wears the high sugar-loaf hat in which the revolutionary heroes..enshrined their evil heads.
1793Holcroft tr. Lavater's Physiog. xx. 102 All Indians with flat or *sugar-loaf heads.
1799Malthus Diary 9 July (1966) 131 We..saw Doverfield..with his *sugar loaf hills covered with snow. 1808Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) II. App. 5 A beautiful little sugar loaf hill. 1859D. Bunce Travels with Dr. Leichhardt iv. 29 There are two lofty sugar-loaf hills..which may be seen from Hobart Town. 1969Sugar loaf hill [see favela].
1688Holme Armoury iii. i. 11/1 They wear their Hats higher in the Crown (*Sugar Loafe like)..then Men do.
Ibid. xxii. (Roxb.) 280/2 A great *Sugar loaf Mould.
1866Chambers' Encycl. VIII. 269/1 The peak called, from its peculiar shape, *Sugar-loaf Mountain.
1837Thackeray Ravenswing v, The *sugar-loaf page asked whether master was coming home early.
1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 96 Blue *sugar-loaf paper.
1796Nemnich Polyglot.-Lex. vi. 958 *Sugar-loaf pine, Ananas pyramidalis.
1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 533 Dessert apples... *Sugarloaf Pippin, Wormsley Pippin.
1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 384 A *Sugar-Loaf Rock above Water.
1852Burn Naval & Milit. Dict. ii. (1863) 276/2 *Sugar-loaf sea, mer clapoteuse.
1849Cupples Green Hand xiv, The *sugar-loaf shape of the headland.
1885Dillon Fairholt's Cost. in Eng. I. 183 A *sugar-loaf-shaped erection of red cloth.
1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. II. 129 The..hard, granulated, *sugar-loaf-stone.
1876Dunglison Med. Lex., *Sugarloaf Stump, a conical shape assumed by the stump after amputation..due to excessive muscular retraction.
1756Mrs. Delany Autobiog. (1861) III. 435 The gardens seem to be laid out in the old-fashioned way of mince-pies, arbours, and *sugarloaf yews.
Hence ˈsugar-loafed († -loaved) ppl. a., shaped like a sugar-loaf.
1702W. J. tr. Bruyn's Voy. Levant xl. 156 A sort of Sugar-loaved Hats. 1842Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Prof. Wks. 1898 IV. 346 A jacket covered with sugar-loafed buttons. 1872Baker Nile Trib. ix. 148 A steep sugar-loafed hill. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 556/1 The bassinet was now worn beneath the huge sugar-loafed helm. |