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  • verb Present participle of curlicue.

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Examples

  • Was that what you thought it was, or maybe just some random cilia cells curlicuing across your eye?

    From Midway To Halsted Joe Deir 2011

  • Maybe they just stood on the front of their plank with the wave curlicuing behind and over them, feet together, hair flowing behind, perfectly balanced, perfectly spaced apart on the waves as in the engraving, Adonises and Aphrodites of Kealakekua, and the only thing you would hear from the beach aside from the sift and crash of surf was laughter and cries of innocent joy.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • Each beautiful orange globe with green tendrils curlicuing was different from the next.

    Babes with a Beatitude Linda P. Kozar 2009

  • The arms of the pentagram were decorated with wildly curlicuing symbols.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • The arms of the pentagram were decorated with wildly curlicuing symbols.

    City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

  • Inhale deeply, and you will absorb a fragrance that is intense and ornate, like a filigreed eave curlicuing from the roof of a Thai Buddhist temple.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Inhale deeply, and you will absorb a fragrance that is intense and ornate, like a filigreed eave curlicuing from the roof of a Thai Buddhist temple.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Inhale deeply, and you will absorb a fragrance that is intense and ornate, like a filigreed eave curlicuing from the roof of a Thai Buddhist temple.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The onld one was appealing, but this one is infinitely more romantic, and i’m a sucker for stylised curlicuing.

    cover up 2008

  • "Naranjo has a succulent eye for the landscape of the world and the human body, and the film coasts breezily along on curlicuing aesthetic vibes that are rhymed to Roman and Maru's topsy-turvy libidos and emotions, but what are these two privileged teens doing besides recreating scenes from

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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