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Escallop

noun
1.
Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces.  Synonyms: scallop, scollop.
2.
Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled.  Synonyms: cutlet, scallop, scollop.
3.
Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions.  Synonyms: scallop, scollop.





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"Escallop" Quotes from Famous Books



... order of St. James, about the middle of the twelfth century. The cavaliers of the fraternity, which received its papal bull of approbation five years later, in 1175, were distinguished by a white mantle embroidered with a red cross, in fashion of a sword, with the escallop shell below the guard, in imitation of the device which glittered on the banner of their tutelar saint, when, he condescended to take part in their engagements with the Moors. The red color denoted, ...
— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott


Words linked to "Escallop" :   lamellibranch, shellfish, Pecten irradians, scollop, cook, sea scallop, cutlet, slice, ready, pelecypod, Pecten magellanicus, giant scallop, bivalve, fix, family Pectinidae, Pectinidae, bay scallop, prepare, make, scallop, piece


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