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scallops

/ˈskæləps/

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noun

  1. plural of scallop

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/ˈskæləps/

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The rigging girdle consists of a number of fabric scallops through which run strands of Italian hemp.
George WhaleBritish Airships, Past, Present, and FutureProject Gutenberg ebook #762
The population was evidently ichthyophagous, to judge by the vast accumulations of shells of scallops, oysters, limpets, pectens, and other mollusca.
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de NadaillacManners and Monuments of Prehistoric PeoplesTranslated by N. D'AnversProject Gutenberg ebook #3309
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Then he found that, though the marks of pig-dressing, of fats and scallops, were visible, the materials themselves had been taken away.
Thomas HardyJude the ObscureProject Gutenberg ebook #153
Slightly stew a bit of rump steak with bits of tongue and mushrooms; let it get cold, and cut it into scallops.
W. G., Mrs. WatersThe Cook's Decameron A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian DishesProject Gutenberg ebook #930
But one of the scallops, differing in no wise from the others in appearance, if cleverly coaxed, opens at the edge into two lips and stands slightly ajar.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the SpiderTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #1887