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scallop

[skol-uhp, skal-] / ˈskɒl əp, ˈskæl- /










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Lady 56 was buried with a scallop shell, an unusual object to find in a medieval Scandinavian grave.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

BBC Scotland's Disclosure's programme, Slavery At Sea, identified 35 men who worked on the fleet of scallop trawlers and went on to be recognised by the UK Home Office as victims of modern slavery.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

Meanwhile, the scallop and soup examples I mentioned above came, respectively, from Ed Yong’s “An Immense World,” about animal perception, and Sam Kean’s “The Disappearing Spoon”—of which I have completed 87% so far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Chef-owners Carles Ramón and Manu Nuñez reworked the classic Galician dish vieira a la gallega, which usually tosses scallop, jamón, and breadcrumbs into a shell and bakes it all into submission.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025

A gold ingot in the tines of a scallop rake.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

They have seen spider crabs taking a stroll, starfish, king scallops and goby fish.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Hutchings uses scallops, large shrimp and fish fillets, but other options like oysters, lobster tails, crabs, mussels and clams are perfectly acceptable.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

From there, the menu moves to the restaurant’s specialties: hand-cut steaks aged in-house, sautéed scallops and pan-fried walleye.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

Go to the Marché des Enfants Rouges in the 3rd arrondissement in Paris for fresh oysters and a cheese plate, or to the Marché des Carmes in Toulouse for some lamb chops and fried scallops.

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

A serving maid whisked away my uneaten sparrowgrass and replaced it with scallops and tomato aspic.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

The scalloped bonnethead was last seen in Mexico in 1994, while the scoophead was last documented in 2007.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2025

From an office perched on the scalloped edge of the continent, Victoria Bradley jokes that she has the most beautiful doctor's practice in Australia.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025

They scalloped when we visited my mother’s parents in Mexico Beach, FL.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024

“The sun had gotten near to the tops of the far mountains and the light scalloped their broken edges, spilling toward us a flood of burning silver,” Mr. Chappell writes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

The diamond was tucked inside a scalloped silver setting.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

For the adventurous and industrious, from October to March, the town sells $50-a-week shellfish permits for recreational scalloping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Brown was working with a vocabulary that she called “delicate aberrations,” and small-scale gestures repeatedly catch the eye, like palms carving the air in a scalloping motion, or a forearm folding into a rib.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2022

When my kids were younger, I always took them scalloping.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021

In New Bedford, Massachusetts, where the William Lee docks, scalloping season begins in April.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2021

Each had knotted, carefully combed tassels, fleur-de-lis borders, ornate medallion designs, and minute scalloping amid a motif of connected eight-spoked wheels, all in rust and fire orange.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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