What is "curlicues"

Usage examples of "curlicues".

The hilt was covered with the same greenish dragonhide, and the brass hilt was inscribed with curlicues in complement to the bell-guard of the rapier.

Long ribbons of blood wept from the battered head, turned to tattered curlicues by the current.

Whorls and curlicues were rippling along the edges of the red bands, flat streamers, kilometres long, were shooting out horizontally, like solar prominences.

Colours fought like armies along frenzied boundaries of intricate curlicues, never winning, never losing.

Oh, no, my friend, you just take your time and do it the good old-fashioned way with a goose quill, with all the curlicues and flourishes.

Lady Astair showed him a sheet of paper covered with large, old-fashioned handwriting with curlicues and intricate flourishes.

He was still a Crown Loyalist, when all was said and done, even if that once-simple political philosophy had developed a lot of curlicues and embroidery in the years since he'd met Catherine Montaigne.

Like most Solarians, Thandi tended to be oblivious to the political curlicues of the galaxy's multitude of miniature star nations.

But, her program hadn't placed any great priority on teaching her new charges the curlicues which galactic luxury could create.

The little curlicues scalloping the edge of the pink material increased Cashel's scorn for the fellow who'd built the place.

He gave Ziggy scripts with a solid framework and lots of interesting angles, but they'd never have got off the ground until Ziggy added his own curlicues and all those zany touches that seem to send half the half-witted public.

A nice rapier, he decided, although the grip was definitely too small for Durine's oversized fingers, and he would have preferred a larger bell-guard, and a polished one, rather than the deeply-inscribed curlicues that covered the surface of this one.

It was only the elaborate curlicues and cutouts of stone that had given this piece of Venetian Gothic its fragile look.

Fenner released his grip, whispering, ‘Okay, okay,’ and Holland could have both his hands to clamp on those comforting curlicues of carved stone.

Chuck gazed with admiration at the fabulous curlicues, leaves and gods' heads carved into the woodwork and adorned with gold-leaf trim.