From the script:
"ALICE. What a curious helmet you've got! Is
that your invention too?
WHITE KNIGHT. (Looking down proudly at his helmet, which
hangs from the saddle.) Yes, but I've invented a better one than
that--like a sugar loaf. When I used to wear it, if I fell off the horse,
it always
touched the ground directly. So I had
a very little way to fall, you see--But there was the
danger of falling into it, to be sure. (Solemnly.) That happened
to me once--and the worst of it was, before I could get out again, the
other White Knight came and put it on. He thought it was his own
helmet."
p. 60
So what is a sugar loaf?
A sugarloaf was the traditional form in which
refined sugar was
produced and sold until the late 19th century when granulated and cube sugars
were introduced. A tall cone with a rounded top was the end product of a
process that saw the dark molasses-rich
raw sugar refined into white
sugar.
(mawer.clara.net/usefularts.html)
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