escallop

American  

[e-skol-uhp, e-skal-] / ɛˈskɒl əp, ɛˈskæl- /

Also escalop

verb (used with object)

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

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

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noun

1. scallop.

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

escallop British  

/ ɛˈskɒləp, ɛˈskæl- /

noun

1. another word for scallop

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• unescalloped
  adjective

Etymology

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 )

Example Sentences

This beautiful charge of the escallop, happy in its association with the pilgrims of the olden time, and always held in high esteem by Heralds, is generally drawn as in No. 165.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

St. James the Greater has the escallop shell and staff of the pilgrim.

From The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness by Regester, J. A. (Jacob Asbury)

Per pale sable and or, a cheveron between three escallop shells, all counterchanged.

From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Your mind is made of crumbs,—like an escallop Of oysters,—first a layer of crumbs, and then An oystery taste, and then a layer of crumbs.

From Aria da Capo by Millay, Edna St. Vincent