escalope

[es-kuh-lohp; Fr. es-ka-lawp]

es·ca·lope

[es-kuh-lohp; Fr. es-ka-lawp]
noun, plural es·ca·lopes [-lohps; Fr. -lawp] . French Cookery.
1.
scallop (def. 5).
2.
a dish of thinly sliced meat, fish, potatoes, etc., baked in a sauce and often topped with bread crumbs.

Origin:
1600–10; < French; see escallop; relation of the sense “thin slice” to the OF meaning “shell (of a nut, snail, etc.)” is uncertain
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Escalope is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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escalope (ˈɛskəˌlɒp)
 
n
a thin slice of meat, usually veal, coated with egg and breadcrumbs, fried, and served with a rich sauce
 
[C19: from Old French: shell]

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