单词 | scallop-shell |
释义 | scallop-shelln. 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. 2. Collectors' name for the moth Triphosa (Eucosmia) undulata. ΚΠ 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). < n.1530 |
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