escalope

Borrowed from French escalope. Doublet of scallop.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈeskəlɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeskəloʊp/

escalope (plural escalopes)

1. A thin slice of meat, especially veal or poultry.

   Synonym: scallop

   • 1980 November 23, Patricia Brooks, “French Dining in an Unlikely Setting”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Both the escalope de veau Normande and a special of the day, veal Orloff, seemed to be cut from the same veal roast, not thin escalopes at all, but thick chop-like slices. Only the sauces differed.

2. (heraldry) A charge (depiction) of the scallop.

• escalope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• opalesce

From Old French escalope.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ka.lɔp/

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escalope f (plural escalopes)

1. escalope (thin slice of meat)

• → Catalan: escalopa
• → English: escalope

• “escalope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Supposedly a blend of escale (“scallop”) +‎ enveloppe (“envelope”).

escalope f (oblique plural escalopes, nominative singular escalope, nominative plural escalopes)

1. shell (hard outer covering)

• English: escalope, scallop
• French: escalope
• Norman: scalope (Jersey)

escalope m (plural escalopes)

1. escalope

• “escalope”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014