escalop

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪˈskæləp/, /ɪˈskɒləp/

Noun

escalop (plural escalops)

  1. A scallop.
  2. 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 1179804186:
      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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Romanian

Etymology

From French escalope.

Noun

escalop n (plural escalopuri)

  1. escalope

Declension
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
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