escalop

Old French escalope (“shell”), French escalope (“a sort of cut of meat”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈskæləp/, /ɪˈskɒləp/

escalop (plural escalops)

1. A scallop.
2. (obsolete) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything.
   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     So many jags or escalops.

3. (heraldry) A bearing or charge consisting of an escalop shell, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

escalop (third-person singular simple present escalops, present participle escaloping, simple past and past participle escaloped)

1. Dated form of scallop (“bake in a casserole”).

• escalope
• escallop
• scallop

• “escalop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French escalope.

escalop n (plural escalopuri)

1. escalope