Meaning of pirlicue | Babel Free

Definitions

A summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points.

Scotland

Examples

“[I]f you distaste the sermon, I doubt the pirliecue [footnote: A second sermon.] will please you as little.”

“A pirlicue which pleased them but little, so that some rode off that they might not be known, and some dourly remained, but were impotent for evil.”

“Much in the same way would a minister in Thrums, hard up for a pirlicue, never fail to find it in having 'one more whap, my freens, at the Painted Whure of Babylon.'”

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