curlicue
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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
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
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
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