coquillage

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Sur la crénatule, nouveau genre de coquillage.

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  1. In decorative art, an imitation of shells, or the use of forms borrowed from shells. This motive of decoration was common in the Louis XV. style. See rococo.

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  1. French, a shell-animal, a shell, from coquille, a shell: see coquille, cockle.
 

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