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Escallop

noun

Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces. Synonyms: scallop, scollop.

Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled. Synonyms: cutlet, scallop, scollop.

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

... it. In the concert room, the superannuated artistes of the poorer kind of Continental concert hall shrieked and grimaced and ogled, and after every item of the show, the performer came round with an escallop shell into which the more generously disposed dropped small copper coins. The place was nearly always crowded with men in black frock-coats and crimson fezzes. Ill-starred Valentine Baker had been employed by the Sublime Porte to create an English gendarmerie, and this fact had brought ...

— Recollections • David Christie Murray

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