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Sugar-baker. World English Historical Dictionary

Sugar-baker. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Sugar-baker [Cf. Da. suikerbakker, G. zuckerbäcker.]

1   † 1.  A confectioner. Obs.

2 1650.  Comenius’ Janua Ling., § 408. The Sugar baker make’s readie sweet-meats.

3   2.  A sugar-refiner. Obs. exc. Hist.

4 1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. xxii. (Roxb.), 281. The coat of Armes of the Sugar bakers or Refiners.

5 1727.  De Foe, Eng. Tradesm., iv. (1841), I. 26. I have seen a confectioner turn a sugar-baker.

6 1727.  Sheridan, Sch. Scand., II. ii. Her mother was a Welsh milliner and her father a sugarbaker at Bristol.

7 1834.  Brit. Husb., I. 426. Sugar-bakers’ scum is the skimmings of the sugar during the operation of refining.

8 1836–7.  Dickens, Sk. Boz, Tales, x. Mr. Gabriel Parsons … was a rich sugar-baker, and mistook rudeness for honesty.

9 1858.  Simmonds, Dict. Trade.

10   So Sugar-bakehouse, a sugar-refinery; Sugar-bakery, (a) a sugar-refinery; (b) the occupation of a sugar-refiner; Sugar-baking vbl. sb.

11 1815.  Ann. Reg., Chron., 91. A *sugar bakehouse.

12 1794.  Debates U.S. Congress, 5 May (1849), 635. There were only seventeen *sugar-bakeries in the United States.

13 1860.  Thackeray, Lovel, i. (1861), 43. He had embarked in many businesses besides the paternal sugar-bakery.

14 1714.  Fr. Bk. of Rates, 103. The said Manufacture of *Sugar-Baking and Refining in France.

15 1805.  Forsyth, Beauties Scot., III. 36. There are few manufactures here [sc. Greenock] carried on … excepting of cordage … sugar-baking, and some few others.

16 1902.  Encycl. Brit., XXXIII. 48/1. In former days, when refining sugar or ‘sugar baking’ was supposed to be a mystery.

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