squirln.
/skwəːl/, U.S. /skwərl/ dialect and colloquial.
A flourish or twirl, esp. in handwriting.
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society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > [noun] > flourish
dash1607
flourish1653
knota1680
purlicue1808
quirk1840
squirl1843
curlicue1844
line-filling1895
line-finishing1906
line-ending1928
the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > curled condition or formation > curled thing or part
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quirl1761
pirl1880
squirl1979
1843 J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie's Wallet ix. 212 Look at the lang turns o' his L's, and the squirls o' his B's; he's been weel brought up.
1922 Sunday at Home Oct. 59/2 ‘What a squiggly handwriting,’ she said... ‘They would not let us write that way at school. But when I am grown up I shall make lots of squirls.’
1955 E. Bowen World of Love iii. 58 They are simply signed with a squirl.
1971 H. R. Loyn Wulfstan MS. 22 S2 three times uses a distinctive squirl, rather like a reversed c, to show the end of a section before a blank half-line.
1979 PN Rev. 10 7/1 The anterior reinforcing board..has a similar but not identical configuration of interlaced and interlocking squirls.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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