curve
 noun
 curva
EN The sweep of her hair back from her face, the curve of her nostril suggested the figurehead of a ship plunging gallantly into a rough sea.
GL O seu cabelo, peiteado e recollido detrás da cabeza, e as curvas do seu perfil suxerían o mascarón de proa dunha nave que sucase bravos mares con afouteza.
 Fonte: ASA (5495)
intransitive verb
curvar
EN The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur.
GL A columnata na que ficaba facíalle pensar vagamente nun templo antigo e o bastón de freixo no que se apoiaba na vara curvada dun augur.
Fonte: RET (4484)
formar curvas
EN A steamer far out at sea had drawn in the air a great scroll of smoke which stayed there curving and circling decoratively, as if the air were a fine gauze which held things and kept them softly in its mesh, only gently swaying them this way and that.
GL Un barco de vapor ó lonxe, mar afora, debuxara unha voluta de fume que quedaba alí formando curvas e círculos ornamentais, coma se o aire fose unha gasa fina que retivese suavemente os obxectos no seu tecido, dándolles simplemente un lixeiro abaneo de aquí para alá.
Fonte: CAR (2909)
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curriculum, curry, curse, cursor, curtail, curtain, curtly, curtsy, curva, curve, curvet, curveting, curving, cushion, custodian, custody, custom, customarily, customary