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• sugar loaf
• sugarloaf

Noun

sugar-loaf ‎(plural sugar-loaves)

1. 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.
   • J. Webster

     Why, do not I know you, grannam? and that sugar-loaf?

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