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Definition of Curlicues
1. curlicue [v] - See also: curlicue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curlicues
Literary usage of Curlicues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"curlicues, frequently written curlicues, and evidently derived from curl and
curly, designates fantastic ornaments worn on a person or used in architecture. ..."
2. Introductory Psychology for Teachers by Edward Kellogg Strong, ( (1922)
"Reading is then at bottom, the moving of the muscles of the throat in response
to certain curlicues on a page or blackboard. The proper control of these ..."
3. Brief Introductory Psychology for Teachers by Edward Kellogg Strong (1922)
"Reading is then at bottom, the moving of the muscles of the throat in response
to certain curlicues on a page or blackboard. The proper control of these ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1908)
"curlicues. Williams, G: A. $l. Stokes. Curtin, Jeremiah. The Mongols in Russia.
map. 8°. **$3 net. Little, B. & Co. Curtis, AC The good sword Belgarde. il. ..."
5. The Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685: The Demographic Fate and by Philip Benedict, American Philosophical Society (1991)
"... the Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali of scribes, could not refrain from recording,
amid elaborate curlicues, "My first time when I wanted to write, ..."
6. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"... With strategy perfidious He tied his neck in curlicues, he kicked his paddy
heels. Then quoth the gentle Sam-u-el, " You rogue, I ought to lam you well! ..."
7. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1892)
"... writin' cards — spread eagles with your name in curlicues comin' out o' their
beaks— an' true-lovers' knots an' doves, if't was a new- married pair. ..."
8. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"... (b) dots and dashes and curves and curlicues above and below the letters; (c)
especially designed symbols or Anglo-Saxon letters, as the edh and thorn. ..."
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