Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world / Like one great garden show'd, / And thro' the wreaths of floating dark upcurl'd, / Rare sunrise flow'd.1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “The Poet”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 48:
upcurl
noun
Etymology From up- + curl.
1
An upward curl.
She notes an upcurl on the bottom stroke of the paraphs by 'a', and the absence of a bottom stroke in those of 'b'; […]2016, Susanna Fein, The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, page 181: