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• n  a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
• n  a short twisting line

• He became an element of pop culture, a decorative curlicue of the apolitical, singing, dancing, quasi-bohemians.
• With its floor-to-(nearly)-ceiling shuttered windows and curlicue iron balcony rails, I felt like Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby (except legal and not as cute).
• Her subsequent adventures are detailed in prose that misses nary an 18th century curlicue.

• coil
• whorl
• roll
• curl
• ringlet
• gyre
• scroll
• squiggle

News & Articles

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• Clark: Avista ‘report card’ puts me in a class by myself - Sun, 30 Jun 2013 PST
  Well, they’ve done it again – those weasels at the Avista Corp., I mean. If these meddlers aren’t raising our gas and electricity rates every other month, they’re sending everybody unwanted cases of poison-filled curlicue death-bulbs.
  June 30, 2013 - The Spokesman-Review