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pirlicues

pirlicues is the plural of pirlicue.

Meaning of pirlicue

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 &...

Questions about pirlicues

What is pirlicues the plural of?
Pirlicues is the plural of pirlicue.

Words near pirlicues in the dictionary

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

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