| Clearly a master of her modest medium, she folds paper into facets, quills it into curlicues and cuts it into intricate, lacelike filigree. |
| The walls were panelled in wood, the floor covered in carpets decorated with curlicues to rival any Persian rug. |
| They have one trunk only, and short branches, and their leaves adorn these little branches like curlicues. |
| There was a vast expanse of marble slabbed flooring, all green and cream swirls, and lots of polished wood with carved curlicues. |
| He eyes critically the curlicues the hairdresser has snipped into his foliage. |
| There are parchments of painstaking calligraphy, replete with fabulous swirls and curlicues, and magic carpets wider than the Bosphorus. |
