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Curlicue
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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curlicue
1844, from curly + cue, perhaps from Fr. queue "tail" or letter Q in its looping script form. Earlier in this sense was curlie-wurlie (1772).
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