"pirlicue" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See purlicue.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pirlicues",
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        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 245:",
          "text": "[I]f you distaste the sermon, I doubt the pirliecue [footnote: A second sermon.] will please you as little.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Men of the Moss-hags: Being a History of Adventure, page 261:",
          "text": "A pirlicue which pleased them but little, so that some rode off that they might not be known, and some dourly remained, but were impotent for evil.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The Barrie inspiration, page 90:",
          "text": "Much in the same way would a minister in Thrums, hard up for a pirlicue, never fail to find it in having 'one more whap, my freens, at the Painted Whure of Babylon.'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points."
      ],
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          "repeating",
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          "main",
          "main#Adjective"
        ],
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          "points",
          "point#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) A summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "purlicue"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
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    }
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  "word": "pirlicue"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "See purlicue.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pirlicues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "purlicue"
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        "Scottish English"
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          "ref": "1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 245:",
          "text": "[I]f you distaste the sermon, I doubt the pirliecue [footnote: A second sermon.] will please you as little.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Men of the Moss-hags: Being a History of Adventure, page 261:",
          "text": "A pirlicue which pleased them but little, so that some rode off that they might not be known, and some dourly remained, but were impotent for evil.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The Barrie inspiration, page 90:",
          "text": "Much in the same way would a minister in Thrums, hard up for a pirlicue, never fail to find it in having 'one more whap, my freens, at the Painted Whure of Babylon.'",
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        }
      ],
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        "A summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) A summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pirlicue"
}