英:[ˈkɜ:lɪkju:]
美:[ˈkɜrlɪkju]
英:[ˈkɜ:lɪkju:]
美:[ˈkɜrlɪkju]
复数:curlicues
第三人称单数:curlicues
现在分词:curlicuing
过去式:curlicued
过去分词:curlicued
"曲线或扭曲得很奇特的东西",1843年,美国英语,由 curly 的组合形式构成。cue is 可能来自法语 queue 的"尾巴"或者是字母 Q 的循环字体形式的形象。在这个意义上,更早的是押韵的重复词 curlie-wurlie(1772年)。
Nouncurly + cue a braid of hair
The first known use of curlicue was in 1843
curraghnoun
coracle
curmudgeonnoun
a grumpy and usually old man
curmudgeonnoun
a grumpy and usually old man
curlicuenoun
a fancifully curved or spiral figure (as a flourish in handwriting)
curlyadjective
tending to curlalso: having curls
curly hair
curl1 of 2verb
to form into or grow in coils or ringlets
curled her hair
to take or move in a curved form
smoke curling from the chimney
curl2 of 2noun
a lock of hair that coils : ringlet
a spiral or winding form : coil
the state of being curled
a hollow place under the crest of a breaking wave
curlingnoun
a game in which two teams of four players slide special stones over ice toward a target circle
curlyadjective
tending to curlalso: having curls
curly hair
curlicuenoun
a fancifully curved or spiral figure (as a flourish in handwriting)
1 As for Glass, his 14th etude, played after Schubert’s F Minor impromptu, seemed so richly tonal, with recurring curlicues of melody, that it sounded nearly Romantic.
2 Pick a question out of a hat and chances are he’ll have an opinion, expressed in a curlicue of language and anecdotes that charmingly meanders its way toward the point.
3 And this curious curlicue in a leading actor's career is a small symbol of the astonishing consequences of the Murdoch meltdown.
4 She made curlicues on each letter of TRUTH.
5 My bed has a dark wooden headboard with curlicues on it.
6 Lagerfeld also served up A-line dresses in chiffon with beaded black curlicues that echoed the rounded forms of French gardens.
7 Then she stood at the blackboard and scribbled little curlicues in white chalk while I sat in a chair and watched.
8 My favorite remains Mr. Glaser’s illustration of “The Tempest”: Miranda’s face is a torrent of curlicues, while her father Prospero sprouts from the crown of her head, casting his spells in Technicolor.
9 There is hair everywhere: pink strands held back with a baseball cap, white curlicues on a tan chest.
10 “Everybody get it off the boat, right?/But only I can really have a snow fight,” he says on “Diet Coke,” lyrics delivered with a snarl and an implicit little curlicue flourish at the end.
11 The fashion conversion was to turn those iron curlicues from another era into lacy dresses for modern times.
12 There are some bicycles, but they have flattened oval curlicues for wheels.
13 One brownstone was rotund—like a jolly, well-fed grandfather—with a curved facade and decorative curlicues above round, owlish windows.
14 How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife.
15 I make a drawing of the inside of the frog, with all its curlicues and bulbs, its tiny lungs, its cold-blooded amphibian heart.
16 Not that he’d recognized its divinity at first — not in this flat rectangle wrapped in checkerboard paper; its attached clump of gray ribbon curlicues looked like the head of a mop.
17 "Only as you mature as an artist do you leave out all the curlicues," he explained in an interview published in "The Player: A Profile of an Art" by Lillian Ross and Helen Ross.
18 He shaved the sides, throwing curlicues of wood into the air, and sharpened the tip.
19 It uses colorful animated drawings of geometrical forms and lines, swirls and curlicues that are digitally projected onto the curtain and stage backdrops to form an ever-shifting accompaniment to the action.
20 The Stockhausen is best known for that relentless beginning, but I was more struck in Mr. Aimard’s performance — and on this particular walk — by the sensual, dawnlike curlicues near the end.