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scallop

Canada, US/ˈskɑləp/Canada, US/ˈskæləp/UK/ˈskɒləp/New Zealand/ˈskɛləp/

noun

What it means

  1. Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.

    Synonyms: scollop, sea scallop

  2. One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.

    A coral rose, its petals unfolded in scallop around the tight inner bud

    1980 December 27, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 12
  3. cookingA fillet of meat, escalope.

In a sentence

A coral rose, its petals unfolded in scallop around the tight inner bud

1980 December 27, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 12

Where it comes from

  1. Normanscalope
  2. Old Frenchescalope“shell”
  3. Englishscallop

From Old French escalope (“shell”). Doublet of chaloupe, chalupa, escallop, escalope, shallop, and sloop. Further related to scale and shell.

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