curlicue

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Between the downward curlicue (tm the regulars on the Dawson's board back in the day) and death of Warrick and Gil's departure, the show hit a consistently high emotional pitch for several months, so when it returned to more garden-variety episodes, they seemed blah.

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  1. noun A fancy twist or curl, such as a flourish made with a pen.

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  • At the end of each vining curlicue was a gemstone bud—she would guess rubies from the deep redness of the stones and their astonishing depth, but she supposed they might have been garnets, too. —  Memory of Fire by Holly Lisle
  • Ahead of her Gleipnir was a curlicue, violet and small, as if she could cup it in her hand. —  AnalogSFF,December2007
  • Between the downward curlicue (tm the regulars on the Dawson's board back in the day) and death of Warrick and Gil's departure, the show hit a consistently high emotional pitch for several months, so when it returned to more garden-variety episodes, they seemed blah. —  Tomato Nation
  • There is a good amount of iron curlicue so we know it isn't Torremolinos. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • To Beto's chagrin, it is Tato, whose curlicue field play earns him the nickname of Cursi, who is chosen to become a star player. —  indieWIRE News
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  1. curly + cue1, tail, and possibly cue3.

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  1. Sometimes written curlique, but better curlicue, i. e., curly cue, curly Q, in allusion to the curled or spiral forms of this letter (
  2. , Q, etc.): see curly and cue.
 

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/ˈkərlɪkju/
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