fiddle pattern

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noun

a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.

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Origin of fiddle pattern

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby fiddle pattern

fiddle bow, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddle-footed, fiddlehead, fiddle pattern, fiddler, fiddler beetle, fiddler crab, fiddlerfish, fiddlestick

How to use fiddle pattern in a sentence

And in so many of these events, the pattern of “blame the victim” was quickly in evidence.
In 2015, Let’s Try for More Compassion|Gene Robinson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.
Should the U.S. Really Pay a Kim’s Ransom?|Kevin Bleyer|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Although the Brits would capture New York City a few weeks later, a pattern had been set.
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The endpaper features a “pattern of marbleized paper” that has been “individually designed.”
Rand Paul’s Many Leather-Bound Books|Olivia Nuzzi|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The loss of his life, and all the others from this summer, back to Trayvon and well before that, are part of a pattern.
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The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Then he clapped his fiddle under his chin and without more ado struck up "Bobbing Joan."
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
A view of the duchess's ball-room, or of the dining-table of the earl, will supersede all occasion for lengthy fiddle-faddle.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Her eye fastened on a circular portion of the wall-paper pattern, and she felt that the whole room was revolving about her.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett

British Dictionary definitions for fiddle pattern

fiddle pattern

noun

the style of a spoon or fork with a violin-shaped handle

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