Meanings
nounescalope (plural escalopes)
plural escalopes · alternative escallop
- A thin slice of meat, especially veal or poultry.
Both the escalope de veau Normande and a special of the day, veal Orloff, seemed to be cut from the same veal roast, not thin escalopes at all, but thick chop-like slices. Only the sauces differed.
1980 November 23, Patricia Brooks, “French Dining in an Unlikely Setting”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: scallop
- alternativeAlternative spelling of escallop.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA thin slice of meat, especially veal or poultry.
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Catalan escalopa
- escalopathin slice of meat
Esperanto eskalopo
- eskalopothin slice of meat
Finnish leike
- leikethin slice of meat
French escalope
- escalopethin slice of meat
German Schnitzel
- Schnitzelthin slice of meat
Italian scaloppa, fettina
- scaloppathin slice of meat
- fettinathin slice of meat
Japanese 薄切り肉
- 薄切り肉 (usugiriniku)thin slice of meat
Polish eskalopek, eskalopka
- eskalopekthin slice of meat
- eskalopkathin slice of meat
- eskalopthin slice of meat
Portuguese escalope
- escalopethin slice of meat
Russian эскало́п
- эскало́п (eskalóp)thin slice of meat
Spanish escalope
- escalopethin slice of meat
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Cite this entry
APA
escalope. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/escalope
MLA
“escalope.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/escalope. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “escalope,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/escalope.
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