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- noun Plural form of
curlycue .
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Examples
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I love the little green curlycues of lime zest in the icing.
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Them that can't afford a permanent go around all day with their hair done up in curlycues till they look a match for Shirley Temple by the time they get here of a night.
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He had inked in the curlycues, and then colored it with red, white, and blue.
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I fixed up the words, so they were spelled right, and he put some more curlycues on the letters.
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He had inked in the curlycues, and then colored it with red, white, and blue.
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I fixed up the words, so they were spelled right, and he put some more curlycues on the letters.
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He had been scrawling meaningless curlycues on a piece of paper as Ed Meyers talked.
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T.A. Buck took from a vest pocket a scrap of paper and a fountain pen, slid down in his chair, crossed his legs, and began to scrawl meaningless twists and curlycues, as was his wont when worried or deeply interested.
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But how did you know how to make your curlycues in such a fashion that both the postman and your father could retranslate them into spoken words?
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Thereon the letters of the alphabet, large, ominous, suggestive to her mind of nothing in the world but curlycues, loomed, mystifying.
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