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es⋅car⋅got

[es-kar-goh; Eng. es-kahr-goh]
–noun, plural -gots [-goh; Eng. -gohz] . French.
an edible snail.
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es·car·got   (ěs'kär-gō')   
n.   pl. es·car·gots (-gō')
An edible snail, especially one prepared as an appetizer or entrée.

[French, from Old French escargol, from Old Provençal escaragol, probably from variant of dialectal escarabol (perhaps influenced by Occitan cagarol, caragol, snail), from Latin scarabaeus, beetle; see scarab.]
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escargot 
"edible snail," 1892, from Fr. escargot, from O.Fr. escargole (14c.), from Prov. escaragol, ult. from V.L. *coculium, from classical L. conchylium "edible shellfish" (see cockle). The form of the word in Prov. and Fr. seems to have been influenced by words related to scarab.
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