Meanings
nounoystershell (plural oystershells)
plural oystershells
- The shell of an oyster.
The very poor will sometimes adorn the graves of those they love with oystershells, or flintstones, or small plaster busts, or tiles […]
1858, Ecclesiological Society, The Ecclesiologist
Origin
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