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French
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boucle
, boucle de cheveux
, courbe
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Curl
- (n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
- (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
- (v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
- (v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
- (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpents body.
- (v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
- (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
- (n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
- (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
- (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
- (n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Synonyms:
Coil, Curve, Gyre, Kink, Lock, Loop, Ringlet, Roll, Scroll, Wave, Whorl,
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• Curling
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curl
- (n.) A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
- (n.) The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
Synonyms:
Curled,
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• Curlycue
- (n.) Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.
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