"curlicue" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "curly + cue",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From curly + cue.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curlicues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "curlicue (plural curlicues)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "curlicue fractal"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1917, Anna Alice Chapin, Greenwich Village, page 45",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 August 6, Leslie Felperin, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl review – a scaldingly honest coming-of-age comedy”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "(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.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fancy twisting or curling shape usually made from a series of spirals and loops."
      ],
      "id": "en-curlicue-en-noun-i8W2TQ7L",
      "links": [
        [
          "twist",
          "twist"
        ],
        [
          "curl",
          "curl"
        ],
        [
          "spiral",
          "spiral"
        ],
        [
          "loop",
          "loop"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zavǎrtulka",
          "sense": "fancy curling shape",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "завъртулка"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fancy curling shape",
          "word": "koukero"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "fancy curling shape",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Schnörkel"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "curlycue"
    }
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  "word": "curlicue"
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  "etymology_text": "From curly + cue.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curlicues",
      "tags": [
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curlicuing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curlicued",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curlicued",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 231–232",
          "text": "A chandelier the shape of an anchor, hanging over Smith's head as he passed out through this vestibule. Walls curlicued with comb marks of some fancy plasterer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History",
          "text": "I was looking, obliquely, at Bunny slumped over his bowl when all of a sudden, in the window behind his head, I saw the distant figure of Mr. Hatch, walking across the open field beyond the garden, carrying the dark, curlicued ruins of the Malacca chair to the rubbish heap.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 October 15, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times",
          "text": "“Here We Go Again” is the gentlest kiss-off imaginable, with strings and harp and curlicued guitars cushioning Ms. Stone’s farewell[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues."
      ],
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        "(transitive and intransitive) To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "curlycue"
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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "curlicue fractal"
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From curly + cue.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curlicues",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 August 6, Leslie Felperin, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl review – a scaldingly honest coming-of-age comedy”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "(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.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fancy twisting or curling shape usually made from a series of spirals and loops."
      ],
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          "twist"
        ],
        [
          "curl",
          "curl"
        ],
        [
          "spiral",
          "spiral"
        ],
        [
          "loop",
          "loop"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "curlycue"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zavǎrtulka",
      "sense": "fancy curling shape",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "завъртулка"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fancy curling shape",
      "word": "koukero"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fancy curling shape",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schnörkel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "curlicue"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
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        "2": "curly",
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      "expansion": "curly + cue",
      "name": "compound"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From curly + cue.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curlicues",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curlicuing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curlicued",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curlicued",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 231–232",
          "text": "A chandelier the shape of an anchor, hanging over Smith's head as he passed out through this vestibule. Walls curlicued with comb marks of some fancy plasterer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History",
          "text": "I was looking, obliquely, at Bunny slumped over his bowl when all of a sudden, in the window behind his head, I saw the distant figure of Mr. Hatch, walking across the open field beyond the garden, carrying the dark, curlicued ruins of the Malacca chair to the rubbish heap.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 October 15, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times",
          "text": "“Here We Go Again” is the gentlest kiss-off imaginable, with strings and harp and curlicued guitars cushioning Ms. Stone’s farewell[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive and intransitive) To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "curlycue"
    }
  ],
  "word": "curlicue"
}