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escalloped, ppl. a.|ɛˈskæləpt|
[f. *escallop vb. (= scallop v.) + -ed1.]
An alternative (but now less frequent) form of scalloped.
1. Having the border or edge cut in ‘scallops’ or segments of circles; = scalloped 1.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. §82 Now Burgundians scorne their Fliece of Gold; The French, th' Escalopt Collar set with grace. 1672Grew Idea Philos. Hist. Plants (1682) 3 Leaves are Long or Round, Even-edg'd or Escallop'd, and many other ways different. 1842Blackw. Mag. LI. 727 They only succeed..by cross beams and escalloped wedges jambed in between them and their coronets. 1885R. Heath in Mag. Art. Sept. 481/2 The ladies wore escaloped laced ‘heads’, mostly English.
b. Her.
1720Strype Stow's Surv. II. v. xiv. 320/2 His robe turned down about his neck Azure, Escaloped.
2. Of oysters: = scalloped 2. rare.
1880Howells Undisc. Country 14 A person you might help to escalloped oysters or ice-cream at an evening party. |