scrolloping
Having florid ornamentation.
Adjective
- Having florid ornamentation.
- … framed in the scrolloping mahogany, a grey-white, mysteriously smiling, charming girl, the core of herself, the soul of herself; - 1943, Woolf, Virginia, The New Dress:
Origin
From scroll + lollop + -ing.
Forms
Verb
- Winding and meandering like a vine.
- Wherever he looked, vegetation was rampant. Cucumbers "came scrolloping across the grass to his feet." - 1928, Woolf, Virginia, Orlando: A Biography, page 230: