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Definition of Escallop

1. Verb. Bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top.

2. Noun. Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces.

3. Noun. Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled.

4. Noun. Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions.

Definition of Escallop

1. n. See Escalop.

Definition of Escallop

1. Noun. A thin slice of meat (especially of veal) normally shallow fried ¹

2. Noun. A scallop ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Escallop

1. to scallop [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: scallop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Escallop

escalated escalates escalating escalation escalation plan escalations escalator escalator clause escalators escalatory

escalefter escalier escaliers escallonia escallonias escallop (current term) escalloped escalloping escallops escalop

escalope escalope de veau Orloff escaloped escalopes escaloping escalops escambio escambios escamoterie escap't

Literary usage of Escallop

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)
"Bird Az. an escallop with a dunghill cock standing upon it or. ... .Birds Or an escallop sa. on a chief as the last three martlets like the first. (? WOGAN. ..."

2. Display of Heraldry by William Newton (1846)
"Quarterly or and gules, a bordure sable, charged with ten escallop shells argent, ... WO Argent, a fess wavy between three escallop shells sable, ..."

3. The British Herald Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry ...by Thomas Robson by Thomas Robson (1830)
"Bedell, [Rumford, Essex] sa. on a fesse betw. three sal- tiers ar. an escallop shell betw. two mullets az. (Another, three mullets gu. on a fesse. ..."

4. English Heraldry by Charles Boutell (1867)
"escallop. (H. 3) bears—Gu., three Lucies or. On his marriage with the heiress of ANTHONY, Lord LUCY, in 1369, HENRY, fourth Lord PERCY of Alnwick, ..."

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