swirl
/swɝl/ noun C2- A whirling eddy.
- A twist or coil of something.
- The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait.
- Interracial mingling (e.g. dating, sex, marriage, etc.). · She told that white boy she wasn't down with the swirl and to take himself a hike.
- Synonym of pinwheel (“food product with spiral layers”). · I'm baking some cheese swirls.
Plural swirls
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But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer.
To sit among _bon vivants_ under palms in the swirl of concealed music, to look upon the _habitués_ of such a paradise and to be looked upon by them—what is a girl’s first dance and short-sleeved tulle compared with this?
The farther wall of the orchard was already invisible, and the trees were standing out of a swirl of white vapour.
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