Definition of "escallop" [es•cal•lop]

• Variant of scallop. (noun)

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• "To honor his Mother, Prince William has added a red scallop shell "escallop gules", prominent in the Spencer ancestors' coats of arms."
• "The western arch capitals have, as decoration, the rose and escallop shell alternately -- badges of the"
• "Forby derives [cook-eels] from coquille, in allusion to their being fashioned like an escallop, in which sense he is borne out by Cotgrave, who has "Pain coquillé, a fashion of an hard-crusted loafe, somewhat like our stillyard bunne.""