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Definition of Escallops
1. escallop [v] - See also: escallop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escallops
Literary usage of Escallops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"4 escallops Gu. four escallops in cross the tops at the centre ... Salop, W.
Chequy of nine gu. and or ave escallops as the lut. ..."
2. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"Or, on a chief embattled erm. three escallops of the first. ROBERT GRAHAM OF
BROOKSBY, Largs (1854). Or, on a chief erm. three escallops of the first. ..."
3. The British Herald Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry ...by Thomas Robson by Thomas Robson (1830)
"Graham, [Glasgow, Scotland] or, on a fesse ermines, three escallops of the first
... Motto, A Deo victoria. gu.; on a chief sa. three escallops of the first ..."
4. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, James Norris Brewer, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Frederic Shoberl, Joseph Nightingale, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, John Bigland, John Evans, Thomas Rees (1803)
"At the bottom of this block arc several coats of arms; one of them seems a chevron
or fess between three roses or escallops. The pyramid itself is twelve ..."
5. The Cheshire Sheaf edited by Francis Sanders, William Ferguson Irvine, J. Brownbill (1896)
"Argent, on a bend Gules three escallops of the first. 128. ... Argent, a saltire
between four escallops ..."
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