escallop

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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 Utting, R. B.

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 Lower, Mark Antony

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

The badge of the Lords Dacre was an escallop united to a ragged staff, as in the margin.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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