Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, represented as covered with escallop- or scallop-shells: said of the field; also, covered with an imbricated pattern of curving lines. Also
escallopé , counter-escalloped, counter-scalloped.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
escaloped .
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- adjective Alternative form of
escaloped .
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Examples
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The pleasure in surveying this extraordinary combination of beautiful objects, the richness and variety of the work, the long lines broken by the charming and, as they are called, 'escalloped' gables, the
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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Spanish mansions, with the usual charmingly 'escalloped' roof, all resting on a prolonged colonnade or piazza, strange, old-fashioned, and original, running round to a vast extent, which the sensible town has decreed is never to be interfered with.
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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In a very sad ending to the tale the prime veal calf found himself escalloped Viennese style.
Archive 2007-04-22 2007
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So his contribution was an escalloped potato and caramelized onion fritter, baked with lots of rosemary in muffin tins.
DesignerBlog Will 2006
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So his contribution was an escalloped potato and caramelized onion fritter, baked with lots of rosemary in muffin tins.
Archive 2006-11-01 Will 2006
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Howells would eventually worry about “so many dinners…so few books”20 in regard to his friend; but literature was not the point for Mark Twain now, and neither were escalloped oysters; the point was polemics, written fast and broadcast faster; and in this pursuit he excelled brilliantly.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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It was something fearful to see him eat escalloped oysters.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Howells would eventually worry about “so many dinners…so few books”20 in regard to his friend; but literature was not the point for Mark Twain now, and neither were escalloped oysters; the point was polemics, written fast and broadcast faster; and in this pursuit he excelled brilliantly.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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It was something fearful to see him eat escalloped oysters.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The third represented the upper half of a human figure, ending in an escalloped line like the waves; the face was rubbed and featureless, and both arms were held very stiffly up in the air.
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