escallop
Origin of escallop
1- Also es·cal·op (for defs. 1-3) .
Other words from escallop
- un·es·cal·loped, adjective
Words Nearby escallop
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How to use escallop in a sentence
Gardens are sometimes bordered with escallop shells, which are neat enough but seem rather out of place among flowers.
What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes | Dorothy Canfield FisherThe badge of the Lords Dacre was an escallop united to a ragged staff, as in the margin.
The Curiosities of Heraldry | Mark Antony LowerPer pale sable and or, a cheveron between three escallop shells, all counterchanged.
Gules, four fusils in fess or, each charged with an escallop sable (Cheney).
The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West | William Henry Hamilton RogersIn conjunction with fish we may perhaps consider the escallop which, as a charge, belongs to the earliest period of Heraldry.
The Handbook to English Heraldry | Charles Boutell
British Dictionary definitions for escallop
/ (ɛˈskɒləp, ɛˈskæl-) /
another word for scallop
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