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ˈscallop-shell
Cf. escallop-shell.
1. The shell of the scallop, or, more usually, one valve of it: freq. with reference to its being a pilgrim's badge. (Cf. note s.v. escallop-shell.)
1530Palsgr. 265/2 Scaloppe shell, quocquille de saint Jacques. 1562Inv. St. Margaret's Westm. in Malcolm's Londinium IV. 137 One Cope of crimson velvet with scallop shells of silver. a1618Raleigh Pilgrimage 1 Give me my Scollap-Shell of Quiet, My Staff of Faith to lean upon. 1747H. Glasse Cookery ix. 95 Put your Oysters into Scollop⁓shells for that purpose. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxviii, By the scallop-shell of Compostella, I will make a martyr of him.
attrib.1807W. Irving Salmag. (1811) II. 102 The outside of the boxes inlaid with scallop shell-work.
2. Collectors' name for the moth Triphosa (Eucosmia) undulata.
1829J. F. Stephens Catal. Brit. Insects II. 140. |