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escalop

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es⋅cal⋅lop

  [e-skol-uhp, e-skal-]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to bake (food cut into pieces) in a sauce or other liquid, often with crumbs on top; scallop.
2. to bake (fish, potatoes, etc.) in scallop shells.
–noun
3. scallop.
4. Heraldry. a representation of a scallop shell, traditionally associated with pilgrimages and crusades.
Also, es⋅cal⋅op (for defs. 1–3).

Origin:
1425–75; late ME < MF, OF escalope, escalipe shell (of a nut, snail, etc.), perh. < MD scelpe, scolpe mollusk shell (D schelp; perh. akin to scalp )
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