swirl
noun/swɜːl/
/swɜːrl/
- the movement of something that twists and turns in different directions and at different speeds
- The dancers left the stage in a swirl of skirts.
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- a pattern or an object that twists in circles
- The material is yellow with blue swirls on it.
- The cakes were topped with swirls of cream.
Word Originlate Middle English (originally Scots in the sense ‘whirlpool’): perhaps of Low German or Dutch origin; compare with Dutch zwirrelen ‘to whirl’.
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