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Definition of Curlycue
1. n. Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.
Definition of Curlycue
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of curlicue) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curlycue
1. curlicue [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curlycue
Literary usage of Curlycue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Drawing: A Book for the Student and the General Reader by Edwin George Lutz (1915)
"... Sometimes the forms of certain letters are changed or a scroll or a curlycue
added to fill in where too much white space shows. ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Sally," says I, " will you take me for better or worse ? " This put her to
considering, and I gave a flourishing about the room, and ait a curlycue with ..."
3. Corrie Who? by Maximilian Foster (1908)
"Shall FINIS be written with a curlycue beneath it, and so have done? Or shall
the stray threads be gathered up, and the woof be woven into the fuller piece? ..."
4. Grasshopper Green's Garden: The Story of Some Wonderful Little Lives : a by Julia Augusta Schwartz (1909)
"He let this curlycue of earth fall outside, at the top of his hole. It was the
shape of a tiny worm, and is called a worm-cast. ..."
5. The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1882)
"... Spencerian Penmanship, illustrating on the black-board, with hypercritical
discriminations, the vital importance of slope, shade, and terminal curlycue. ..."
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