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swan's neck

or swan neck

noun

  1. a shallow S-curve used in decorative work.


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Then Adelaide stood in front of Hazel, positioned her own feet, stuck her arm in the air in an arc like a swan’s neck, and bent her legs so she slowly dropped toward the ground.

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In his mind he pictured her neck, her long neck, her swan’s neck, her Alice in Wonderland neck coiling like a serpent, like a serpent, coiling down on him.

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Even RT’s World Cup intro film is a thing of luminous beauty, cut with mind-numbing shots of Russian ballerinas curling themselves into swan’s neck shapes and doing beautifully rippling slow‑motion keep-ups.

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For instance, to form the curves of a swan’s neck, the part that is cut away is used to make tail feathers.

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I’d never seen anything like its shape — a Russian onion dome topped with a swan’s neck.

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