Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Shelled food; some edible having a shell, as shell-fish or eggs.
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Examples
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On the fourth day, C noticed, nobody mentioned it anymore, not even the catty salarymen she served, who talked idly of everything as she sat them, distributed menus, fitted their silver bib-smocks, and wheeled antediluvian sealife in dome-shaped platters before them, cracking the ancient exoskeletons into tender piles of millennium-old shell-meat.
running, returning 2009
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On the fourth day, C noticed, nobody mentioned it anymore, not even the catty salarymen she served, who talked idly of everything as she sat them, distributed menus, fitted their silver bib-smocks, and wheeled antediluvian sealife in dome-shaped platters before them, cracking the ancient exoskeletons into tender piles of millennium-old shell-meat.
running, returning Jesse Jarnow 2009
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