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carlicue

carlicue is the obsolete form of curlicue.

Meaning of curlicue

Noun

curlicue (plural curlicues)

  1. A fancy twisting or curling shape usually made from a series of spirals and loops.
    • I put in plenty of curlicues after the figures so that no one could raise the check into $400,000; then I got out my old rattan suit case and put in some clothes.1917, Christopher Morley, chapter 3, in Parnassus on Wheels, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC

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Forms of carlicue

pluralcarlicues

Questions about carlicue

What is carlicue the obsolete form of?
Carlicue is the obsolete form of curlicue.

Words near carlicue in the dictionary

  1. Carley float
  2. Carley floats
  3. carlfriesite
  4. carlhintzeite
  5. Carli
  6. carlicue
  7. carlicues
  8. Carlie
  9. carlike
  10. Carlile
  11. Carliles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carlicue (page history and authors); curlicue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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