Curlicue

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A fancy twisting or curling shape usually made from a series of spirals and loops..

Definitions by Sense

1. A fancy twisting or curling shape usually made from a series of spirals and loops.
2. (transitive and intransitive) To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues.

Example Sentences

I put in plenty of curlicues after the figures so that no one could raise the check into $400,000; then I got out my old rattan suit case and put in some clothes.

There was not the slightest use in trying to make its twisty curlicue streets conform to any engineering plan on earth; so those sensible old-time folk didn't try.

(Curlicue hand-drawn cartoons blossom frequently throughout, touching base with the source material’s distinctive visual style while adding an aptly hallucinogenic vibe when required.)

A chandelier the shape of an anchor, hanging over Smith's head as he passed out through this vestibule. Walls curlicued with comb marks of some fancy plasterer.

I was looking, obliquely, at Bunny slumped over his bowl when all of a sudden, in the window behind his head, I saw the distant figure of Mr. Hatch, walking across the open field beyond the garden, carrying the dark, curlicued ruins of the Malacca chair to the rubbish heap.

“Here We Go Again” is the gentlest kiss-off imaginable, with strings and harp and curlicued guitars cushioning Ms. Stone’s farewell[…]

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Word Forms

• curlicues
• curlycue
• curlicuing
• curlicued

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