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from The Century Dictionary.
- In the rococo decoration of the eighteenth century, said of motives having curved lines similar to those of a sea-shell.
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Where the trampled slope rose from the creek I came upon a small but solid house, built of gray and ruddy sandstones, a quaint, shell-curved penthouse above the open doorway.
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