escallop
Example Sentences
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This beautiful charge of the escallop, happy in its association with the pilgrims of the olden time, and always held in high esteem by Heralds, is generally drawn as in No. 165.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
St. James the Greater has the escallop shell and staff of the pilgrim.
From The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness by J. A. (Jacob Asbury) Regester
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
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
Neither have shell-fish been overlooked: the escallop in particular, from its religious associations, has always been a special favourite.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
