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Meanings of curlicue in inglés

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forma espiral

A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

forma espiral

A short twisting line.

Sinónimos
Examples for "squiggle"
Examples for "squiggle"
1
Nothing was written in the spill, but there was a squiggle -
Bag of Bones
2
X signed a work agreement with an illegible squiggle, and off we went.
Wired
3
She could see the Hudson River, a long, sinuous silver squiggle.
Dangerous Women
4
This squiggle here is the fork in the river, not an imitation wave.
Hula Done It?
5
One of them showed a triangle with a squiggle below.
The hangman's daughter
Usage of curlicue in inglés
1
Knew it by the little curlicue in the top corner of the O.
Bert Wilson in the Rockies
2
You must be a bum shot, not to hit that curlicue in the middle.
Highways in Hiding
3
It's got the same kind of curlicue at the ends.
Body work
4
Rozsak wouldn't have bothered with that curlicue, but he was more ruthless than Palane.
Crown of Slaves
5
They were quiet as the car rolled past the curlicue-lettered sign announcing Hollis College.
Ali’s Pretty Little Lies
6
Also an overflow of curlicue divan, and a washstand.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
7
No turrets, no mansard roofs, no curlicue iron stairs.
Bones Never Lie
8
There, a tiny blue curlicue stained his palm.
White corridor
9
An ugly little curlicue of ink flared above his navel, utterly nigrescent in the poor lamplight.
The last page
10
It was also possible to establish that the motive force for maintaining the curlicue configuration is dynein-based.
Pubmed
11
The carving was in a severe Victorian cursive, the two juicy o's dissected by a feathery curlicue.
Rogues
12
It is one curlicue in a baroque narrative pattern that is being spun around the main strain of films.
The Irish Times
13
There was icing on the cake, too -or, if you prefer, a curlicue around the tribal body art.
The Guardian
14
It hung down to his chest, brushing his gray wool coat with its crimson cuffs and gold curlicue embellishment.
Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery)
15
It curled up in her lap as she sat down again, a tawny curlicue of contentment, and started to purr.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
16
There was a curlicue on the last "s" to let her know the formal code was ended, but the note continued.
The black prism
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Curlicue through the time