Reporters call it "the fishbowl": the building is curved, and the entire area is fronted by glass.
The bare stone walls offered a contrast to the ruffles that curved along the hems of skirts.
A knife or fork with horizontal handles does not sit naturally in the curved structure of a trencher or a pottage bowl.
early 15c. (implied in curved), from Latin curvus "crooked, curved, bent," and curvare "to bend," both from PIE root *(s)ker- "to turn, bend" (see ring (n.)).
1690s, "curved line," from curve (v.). With reference to the female figure (usually plural, curves), from 1862; as a type of baseball pitch, from 1879.
A line or surface that deviates from straightness in a smooth, continuous fashion.
Something characterized by such a line or surface, especially a rounded line or contour of the human body.
A curved line representing variations in data on a graph.