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单词 scallop-shell
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scallop-shelln.

Forms: see scallop n. and shell n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: scallop n., shell n.
Etymology: < scallop n. + shell n. Compare escallop-shell n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscallop-shell.
Cf. escallop-shell n.
1. The shell of the scallop, or, more usually, one valve of it: frequently with reference to its being a pilgrim's badge. (Cf. note s.v. escallop-shell n.)
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society > faith > artefacts > pilgrim's garb > items of attire > [noun] > token > shell
shell1362
scallop?a1400
cockleshell1488
scallop-shell1530
Jacob's shell1757
cockle1962
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Pectinidae > genus Pecten > member of > shell of
cockle1415
cockleshell?1440
scallop-shell1530
freel1637
scallop1639
frill1713
Jacob's shell1757
petuncle1854
skimmer shell1880
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/2 Scaloppe shell, quocquille de saint Jacques.
1562 Inv. St. Margaret's Westm. in Malcolm's Londinium IV. 137 One Cope of crimson velvet with scallop shells of silver.
a1618 W. Raleigh Pilgrimage 1 Give me my Scollap-Shell of Quiet, My Staff of Faith to lean upon.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 95 Put your Oysters into Scollop-shells for that purpose.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiii. 228 By the scallop-shell of Compostella, I will make a martyr of him.
attributive.1807 Salmagundi 19 Sept. 303 The outside of the boxes inlaid with scallop shell-work.
2. Collectors' name for the moth Triphosa (Eucosmia) undulata.
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1829 J. F. Stephens Systematic Catal. Brit. Insects ii. 140 Scollop shell.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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