What is "scallop shell"

Usage examples of "scallop shell".

Under the right hand of the skeleton of Solutre there were numerous flints chipped in the shape of laurel leaves and also a pierced scallop shell.

I've always thought of the goddess of love as a delicate maiden drifting out of the sea foam on a scallop shell.

The Dowager had brought out the remains of the family's silver, including a great dish, three feet across and a foot deep, which was cast in the form of a scallop shell cradling the de Lassan coat-of-arms.

It was tucked into the seaward side of Main Street in the middle of town between a hardware store and a store that sold scallop shell ashtrays and blue pennants that said CAPE COD on them.

Nearby, the stone was stained by a splash of red: cinnabar spilled from the scallop shell that lay beside her.

Sometimes they wore emblems and souvenirs from the sites they visited, such as the scallop shell of Santiago de Compostela.

And behind them, borne through the misty golden twilight like Titania in her chariot, came a delicate car of fluted pearl shaped like a scallop shell, drawn by four gigantic dragonflies.