sugar-loaf hat

noun

A hat shaped like a traditional sugar-loaf.

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Meanings

nounsugar-loaf hat (plural sugar-loaf hats)

plural sugar-loaf hats

  1. A hat shaped like a traditional sugar-loaf.

    On the door's being opened, there came in a little old man, about two feet and a half high, with a red sugar-loaf hat and a long scarlet coat, reaching down nearly to the ground, his hair was long and grey, and his face yellow and wrinkled.

    1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 370
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