escallop

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

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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)

Related formsun·es·cal·loped, adjective

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Related Words for escallop

poach, sear, reduce, griddle, ruin, seethe, melt, barbecue, bake, imbue, blanch, scald, nuke, doctor, fix, parboil, parch, microwave, simmer, percolate

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Historical Examples of escallop

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
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
Four fusils in fess, each charged with an escallop (Cheney).
The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West
William Henry Hamilton Rogers
On the western side are the rose and escallop shell, badges of the Dacres and Nevilles.
The Cathedrals of Great Britain
P. H. Ditchfield

British Dictionary definitions for escallop

escallop

noun, verb

another word for scallop

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Word Origin and History for escallop

n., v.

late 15c., from Middle French escalope "shell," from a Germanic source (see scallop). For initial e-, see especial.