escallop
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Columbine, 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 Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
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 Regester, J. A. (Jacob Asbury)
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 Utting, R. B.
And in Berry's Encyclop�dia Heraldica: "Sa., a cheveron between three escallop shells argent."
From Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
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 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
