escallop

[ e-skol-uh p, e-skal- ]

/ ɛˈskɒl əp, ɛˈskæl- /

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verb (used with object)

to bake (food cut into pieces) in a sauce or other liquid, often with crumbs on top; scallop.

to bake (fish, potatoes, etc.) in scallop shells.

noun

scallop.

Heraldry. a representation of a scallop shell, traditionally associated with pilgrimages and crusades.

Also es·cal·op (for defs 1–3).

Origin of escallop

1425–75; late Middle English < Middle French, Old French escalope, escalipe shell (of a nut, snail, etc.), perhaps < Middle Dutch scelpe, scolpe mollusk shell (Dutch schelp; perhaps akin to scalp)

OTHER WORDS FROM escallop

un·es·cal·loped, adjective

Words nearby escallop

escalate, escalation, escalator, escalator clause, escallonia, escallop, escalope, escambia, escanaba, escapade, escape

Example sentences from the Web for escallop

Gardens are sometimes bordered with escallop shells, which are neat enough but seem rather out of place among flowers.

What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes |Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Gules, four fusils in fess or, each charged with an escallop sable (Cheney).

The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West |William Henry Hamilton Rogers
But that cockleshell he stamped his shillings with—follow me—it was an escallop, and a mint-mark for that very year of Elizabeth.

Back o' the Moon |Oliver Onions
St. James the Greater has the escallop shell and staff of the pilgrim.

The Worship of the Church |Jacob A. Regester

In conjunction with fish we may perhaps consider the Escallop which, as a charge, belongs to the earliest period of Heraldry.

The Handbook to English Heraldry |Charles Boutell

British Dictionary definitions for escallop

escallop

/ (ɛˈskɒləp, ɛˈskæl-) /

noun, verb

another word for scallop

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verb (used with object)

noun

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British Dictionary definitions for escallop

noun, verb

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escallop

verb (used with object)

noun

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