Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who refines sugar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun in former times, the owner of a
sugarhouse
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Examples
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Trevor-Roper reports that the king was annoyed when he ran into a visiting London alderman, a sugar-baker from Wapping, "who was wearing exactly the same incongruous dress."
Checkered Tartan Bill Coles 2008
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Everybody should endeavour to stand as well as he can in the world, and if I had a choice of acquaintance between a sugar-baker and a peer, I should prefer the peer -- unless, indeed, the sugar-baker had something very strong on his side to offer.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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_ True, and then as to her manner; upon my word I think it is particularly graceful, considering she never had the least education; for you know her mother was a Welsh milliner, and her father a sugar-baker at Bristol.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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True, and then as to her manner; upon my word I think it is particularly graceful, considering she never had the least education: for you know her mother was a Welsh milliner, and her father a sugar-baker at Bristol.
Act Second. Scene II 1909
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Her maiden name was Bone, and her father had been a sugar-baker in Bristol, but this was not a retail trade, and she had often told me that she was descended from Geoffrey de Bohun, who was in the retinue of William the Conqueror and killed five Saxons with his own hand at the battle of Hastings.
More Pages from a Journal Mark Rutherford 1872
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Close by me there sat a sturdy, brown Egyptian, a sugar-baker or something of the kind, who held his sides with laughing, and yet, I dare swear, did not understand a word of the comedy.
The Sisters — Volume 5 Georg Ebers 1867
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Close by me there sat a sturdy, brown Egyptian, a sugar-baker or something of the kind, who held his sides with laughing, and yet, I dare swear, did not understand a word of the comedy.
The Sisters — Volume 5 Georg Ebers 1867
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Close by me there sat a sturdy, brown Egyptian, a sugar-baker or something of the kind, who held his sides with laughing, and yet, I dare swear, did not understand a word of the comedy.
The Sisters — Volume 5 Georg Ebers 1867
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Close by me there sat a sturdy, brown Egyptian, a sugar-baker or something of the kind, who held his sides with laughing, and yet, I dare swear, did not understand a word of the comedy.
The Sisters — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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Close by me there sat a sturdy, brown Egyptian, a sugar-baker or something of the kind, who held his sides with laughing, and yet, I dare swear, did not understand a word of the comedy.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
vendingmachine commented on the word sugar-baker
owner of a sugarhouse; on who refines sugar
Anthony Pasquin cruelly wrote, that 'it conveyed an idea of a mad German sugar-baker dancing naked in a conflagration of his own treacle.'
I recently found the word rope-house, now sugarhouse. Are there other --house words that are used for a specific commodity?
March 8, 2015
bilby commented on the word sugar-baker
Whorehouse.
March 8, 2015