escalop

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English

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Etymology

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Old French escalope (shell), French escalope (a sort of cut of meat).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɪˈskæləp/, /ɪˈskɒləp/

Noun

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escalop (plural escalops)

  1. A scallop.
  2. A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything.
    • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. [], London: [] Samuel Smith, [], →OCLC:
      So many jags or escalops.
  3. (heraldry) A bearing or charge consisting of an escalop shell, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Verb

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escalop (third-person singular simple present escalops, present participle escaloping, simple past and past participle escaloped)

  1. Dated form of scallop (bake in a casserole).
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for escalop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French escalope.

Noun

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escalop n (plural escalopuri)

  1. escalope

Declension

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