[
US
/ˈkɝˌɫɪkju/
]
[ UK /kˈɜːlɪkjˌuː/ ]
[ UK /kˈɜːlɪkjˌuː/ ]
NOUN
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- a short twisting line
How To Use curlicue In A Sentence
- Views: panoramicAuntie tweezers tales of boggling provenance from antique archives; adds F Bruce in provocative knitwearMaximal corporate hubris x incentivised boardroom intransigence = 140% idiotainmentLavish biography infuses wry top notes with curlicues of smoky boffinry. TV turn-ons and turn-offs
- Unless you're cuckoo for curlicues, you may wonder the same thing.
- Heavens, that seal consists of enough flourishes and curlicues to amaze the eye - yet that design also contains within it tremendous tautness and discipline, as a piece of design.
- Only, they haven't, as good as a proof is in a excellent, curlicue guitar work of songs similar to "Plans" as good as "I Don't Wanna Go There. Archive 2009-12-01
- When one of the small flowers is pollinated and fertilized, it goes to seed and snakes outward in a fuchsia-colored curlicue.
- The words inscribed on his inner forearms, in fine curlicue, reveal more than he is prepared to say out loud. Ashley Young still aiming to win his spurs with England
- Third, the apostrophes are curlicues of the sort produced by word processors on personal computers, not the straight vertical hashmarks typical of typewriters.
- In these works a few loose curlicue shapes and drips in midnight blue are painted on the cream-colored paper collage.
- There are parchments of painstaking calligraphy, replete with fabulous swirls and curlicues, and magic carpets wider than the Bosphorus.
- There was a vast expanse of marble slabbed flooring, all green and cream swirls, and lots of polished wood with carved curlicues.