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Anything of a similar spiral or incurved shape; a coil, wreath, convolution, undulation.
transferred. Something resembling a tendril of a plant: as, a slender branch of a vein; a curl or ringlet of hair. (Cf. also tendril-footed adj.…
The action of curl, v.1; a curl, twist, undulation.
A coil; a twist or curl, often as decoration. Now rare.
A twist, a curl; the state of being curled.
A flourish or twirl, esp. in handwriting.