escalop

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɪˈskæləp/, /ɪˈskɒləp/

Noun edit

escalop (plural escalops)

A scallop.
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.
(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.

Related terms edit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “escalop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French escalope.

Noun edit

escalop n (plural escalopuri)

escalope

Declension edit

Declension of escalop

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) escalop	escalopul	(niște) escalopuri	escalopurile
genitive/dative	(unui) escalop	escalopului	(unor) escalopuri	escalopurilor
vocative	escalopule		escalopurilor