curlycues

I love the little green curlycues of lime zest in the icing.

Coconut & Lime Macadamia Cake Niki 2005

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.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

He had inked in the curlycues, and then colored it with red, white, and blue.

ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice Cain, James 1934

I fixed up the words, so they were spelled right, and he put some more curlycues on the letters.

The Postman Always Rings Twice Cain, James 1934

He had inked in the curlycues, and then colored it with red, white, and blue.

The Postman Always Rings Twice Cain, James 1934

I fixed up the words, so they were spelled right, and he put some more curlycues on the letters.

ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice Cain, James 1934

He had been scrawling meaningless curlycues on a piece of paper as Ed Meyers talked.

Roast Beef, Medium Edna Ferber 1926

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.

Roast Beef, Medium Edna Ferber 1926

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?

Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1913

Thereon the letters of the alphabet, large, ominous, suggestive to her mind of nothing in the world but curlycues, loomed, mystifying.

In Old Kentucky Edward Marshall 1901