Crossword clues for escallop
escallop
- Bake in a sauce, as potatoes (Var.)
- Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells
- Served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- Bake, as potatoes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Escallop \Es*cal"lop\, n. See Escalop.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"scallop shell," also "edge or border cut in the shape of scallops," late 15c., from Middle French escalope "shell," Old French eschalope "shell (of a nut), carapace," from a Germanic source (see scallop). For initial e-, see e-. As a verb from c.1600 in escalloped "having the border or edge cut out in scallops."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A thin slice of meat (especially of veal) normally shallow fried 2 A scallop
WordNet
n. edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces [syn: scallop, scollop]
thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled [syn: cutlet, scallop, scollop]
edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions [syn: scallop, scollop]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "escallop".
Gerard had come to the entrees-- Londonderry pheasants, escallops of duck, and rissolettes a la pompadour.
With the chicken was a lovely casserole of escalloped potatoes, rich with cream sauce and tender onions, that was calling to me from my plate.
But we were bound to walk, so we went on, whilst above our heads waved medusae whose umbrellas of opal or rose-pink, escalloped with a band of blue, sheltered us from the rays of the sun and fiery pelagiae, which, in the darkness, would have strewn our path with phosphorescent light.
Crow took a mouthful of escalloped veal while the duke digested that bit of wisdom.
But we were bound to walk, so we went on, while above our heads waved shoals of physalides leaving their tentacles to float in their train, medusæ whose umbrellas of opal or rose-pink, escalloped with a band of blue, sheltered us from the rays of the sun, and fiery pelagiæ, which in the darkness would have strewn our path with phosphorescent light.