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Webster 1913 Edition


curlicue

curl′i-cue

(k?rl′?-k?)
,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
caracole
.]
Some thing curled or spiral, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.
[Sometimes written
curlycue
or
carlicue
.]
[ Colloq. U.S.]