pirlicue

plural pirlicues

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

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

   1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 245

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   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.

   1895, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Men of the Moss-hags: Being a History of Adventure, page 261

   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.'

   1938, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The Barrie inspiration, page 90