escallop
Example Sentences
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Gardens are sometimes bordered with escallop shells, which are neat enough but seem rather out of place among flowers.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Your mind is made of crumbs,—like an escallop Of oysters,—first a layer of crumbs, and then An oystery taste, and then a layer of crumbs.
From Aria da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The western arch capitals have, as decoration, the rose and escallop shell alternately—badges of the Dacres and Nevilles, who also may have been benefactors to the cathedral.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by C. King Eley
Per pale sable and or, a cheveron between three escallop shells, all counterchanged.
From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
The badge of the Lords Dacre was an escallop united to a ragged staff, as in the margin.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
