Entry: curlicues (n.)
In context: "...a bright-black-country-western shirt with baroque curlicues of white Nodie-piping across the chest and shoulders, and a string tie, plus sharp-toed boots of some sort of weirdly imbricate reptile skin, and overall he's riveting to look at, grotesque in that riveting way that flaunts its grotesquerie."
Definition: A fantastic curl or twist.
Other: If you thought I'd include pictures of curlicues, you're wrong. I have pictures of curlicue fractals!
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 344
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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