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pirlicue

pirlicue noun: a summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points.

Noun

pirlicue (plural pirlicues)

  1. (Scotland) A summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points.
    • [I]f you distaste the sermon, I doubt the pirliecue [footnote: A second sermon.] will please you as little.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 &...
    • 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.1895, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Men of the Moss-hags: Being a History of Adventure, page 261

Forms of pirlicue

pluralpirlicues

Origin of pirlicue

See purlicue.

Questions about pirlicue

What does pirlicue mean?
Pirlicue means a summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points.
What part of speech is pirlicue?
Pirlicue is a noun.
What is the plural of pirlicue?
The plural of pirlicue is pirlicues.

Words near pirlicue in the dictionary

  1. Pirkle
  2. Pirkls
  3. pirks
  4. pirl
  5. pirled
  6. pirlicue
  7. pirlicues
  8. pirlimycin
  9. pirlindole
  10. pirling
  11. pirls

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