curlicue

• “The curlicue is a little uneven, too, but the chef complimented my pear, and I rather like it myself.”

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• “Remnants of the feathers and "curlicue" designs can still be seen.”

  Insight into the Soul

• “Portis's language is an archaic, biblically inflected 19th-century American English, free of contractions, a plainsong not averse to rhetorical filigree and curlicue – a perfect fit for the hyper-literate, word-drunk Coens.”

  The Guardian: With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth

• “Your reviews are very good, but they could be more interesting if you didn't feel the need to lecture us about movie genealogical connections we might already be familiar with, or if you didn't rely so heavily on the Thesaurus you seem to have parked at your elbow or in your brain - "oft-presumed", "essayed", "curlicue"?”

  The Guardian: With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth

• “The words, in typical French curlicue cursive read: Cherche Quelqu'un pour le mois d'Août.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “I set down thesac à doson the cobbled sidewalk in time to reread the curlicue announcement but no sooner had I translated the first word than the shop door flew open setting off a commotion of cowbells.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “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.”

  The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery

• “The words inscribed on his inner forearms, in fine curlicue, reveal more than he is prepared to say out loud.”

  The Guardian: Ashley Young still aiming to win his spurs with England

• “And that's exactly why she doesn't need Autotune -- that little curlicue would be just as impressive without it.”

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• “A woman after my own heart, Diane von Furstenberg in a gold evening coat takes a shot of a 1939 Steven Arpad shoe, the curlicue carved heel forming a wedge.”

  The Huffington Post: Regina Weinreich: Following my Nose to the Brooklyn Ball

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