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curving

noun C2
  1. A shape or motion that curves. · the curvings of a mountain road

Plural curvings

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It was impossible, from that position, to see the fall, but I could see the curving path which winds over the shoulder of the hill and leads to it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 122 · B2
Holmes led the way up the curving, uncarpeted stair.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 30 · B2
Sometimes the road went through woods where maples were beginning to hang out scarlet banners; sometimes it crossed rivers on bridges that made Anne’s flesh cringe with the old, half-delightful fear; sometimes it wound along a harbor shore and passed by a little cluster of weather-gray fishing huts; again it mounted to hills whence a far sweep of curving upland or misty-blue sky could be seen; but wherever it went there was much of interest to discuss.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 235 · C1
Every little cove along the curving road was a marvel of dancing ripples.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 241 · C1

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