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curlicue

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Curlicue (noun) means a decorative curling shape made up of spirals and loops.

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A decorative curling shape made up of spirals and loops.

"I put in plenty of curlicues after the figures so that no one could raise the check into $400,000; then I got out my old rattan suit case and put in some clothes." — Christopher Morley (1917)

"(Curlicue hand-drawn cartoons blossom frequently throughout, touching base with the source material’s distinctive visual style while adding an aptly hallucinogenic vibe when required.)" — Leslie Felperin, The Diary of a Teenage Girl review – a scaldingly honest coming-of-age comedy (2015)

"There was not the slightest use in trying to make its twisty curlicue streets conform to any engineering plan on earth; so those sensible old-time folk didn't try." — Anna Alice Chapin, Greenwich Village (1917)

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