Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
  • adjective (Her.) Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales.
  • adjective (Cookery) See under Scalloped.

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  • adjective Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
  • adjective heraldry Covered with a scaly pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others.

Etymologies

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escalop +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Hungarian Goulash and escaloped brains, and to remember that he, too, the nut-and-grass eater of today, had once dwelt in Arcadia.

    Something New 1928

  • The little tin, granite ware and silver-plated escaloped shells are pretty and convenient for serving escaloped oysters, lobster, etc. The price for the tin style is two dollars per dozen, for the granite ware, four dollars, and for the silver-plated, from thirty to forty dollars.

    Miss Parloa's New Cook Book Maria Parloa 1876

  • All kinds of cold meat can be escaloped, but beef is so dry that it is not so good as mutton, veal, etc,

    Miss Parloa's New Cook Book Maria Parloa 1876

  • Canned lobster can be used for cutlets, stews, curries and patties, can be escaloped, or served on toast.

    Miss Parloa's New Cook Book Maria Parloa 1876

  • Great care must be taken to remove every bone when fish is prepared with a sauce, (as when it is served _à la crème_, escaloped, &c.), because one cannot look for bones then as when the sauce is served separately.

    Miss Parloa's New Cook Book Maria Parloa 1876

  • Fish (four or five pounds, baked, boiled, or escaloped).

    Miss Parloa's New Cook Book Maria Parloa 1876

  • There were other surprises for him upstairs, in the small dining-room opening out of the library, where a long table was spread with eatables and drinkables -- salads, baby sausages, escaloped oysters, devilled crabs and other dishes dear to old and new members.

    Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

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