Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
scallop .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
escalop .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thin
slice ofmeat (especially ofveal ) normally shallow fried - noun A
scallop
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- noun thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- verb bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
- noun edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
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Examples
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To honor his Mother, Prince William has added a red scallop shell "escallop gules", prominent in the Spencer ancestors' coats of arms.
Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011
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To honor his Mother, Prince William has added a red scallop shell "escallop gules", prominent in the Spencer ancestors' coats of arms.
Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011
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Forby derives [cook-eels] from coquille, in allusion to their being fashioned like an escallop, in which sense he is borne out by Cotgrave, who has "Pain coquillé, a fashion of an hard-crusted loafe, somewhat like our stillyard bunne."
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English sole, sauce tartare; spaghetti or ravioli; escallop of veal, caper sauce; French peas with butter; roast chicken with chiffon salad; ice cream or fried cream; assorted fruits and cakes; demi tasse.
Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords
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In the concert room, the superannuated artistes of the poorer kind of Continental concert hall shrieked and grimaced and ogled, and after every item of the show, the performer came round with an escallop shell into which the more generously disposed dropped small copper coins.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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The western arch capitals have, as decoration, the rose and escallop shell alternately -- badges of the
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Mix both parts lightly, and after putting the mixture into an escallop dish pour over it a sauce made as follows: Put two tablespoonfuls of butter into a frying pan, and when it has been melted add a heaping tablespoonful of flour.
Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book Carrie V. Shuman
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Gu. an inescutcheon arg. between D escallop shells in saltine or.
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St. James the Greater has the escallop shell and staff of the pilgrim.
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Lord HASTINGS unites the Hungerford sickle with the Peverel garbe: No. 270; and the _Dacre knot_ is entwined about the Dacre escallop and the famous “ragged staff” of Beauchamp and Neville: No. 235.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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