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curlicue

[kur-li-kyoo] / ˈkɜr lɪˌkyu /










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Then the lady turned to Prince Curlicue, and said: 'I know that it is to you I owe my deliverance from an enchantment which has held me for two hundred years.

From The Red Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

I am called Curlicue, and am an object of derision; I entreat you to make me less ridiculous.'

From The Red Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

The Queen, his mother, called him Curlicue, because it was a name she rather liked, and it seemed to suit him.

From The Red Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

He turned a page, and there was an excellent smell of a savoury dinner, and one of the figures who sat at the feast looked at him and said: 'We drink your health, Curlicue.

From The Red Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

Prince Curlicue was delighted; he opened one after another, until at last he came to one tiny drawer which contained only an emerald key.

From The Red Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew




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