ˈscallop-shell
Cf. escallop-shell.
1. The shell of the scallop, or, more usually, one valve of it: freq. with reference to its being a pilgrim's badge. (Cf. note s.v. escallop-shell.)
| 1530 Palsgr. 265/2 Scaloppe shell, quocquille de saint Jacques. 1562 Inv. St. Margaret's Westm. in Malcolm's Londinium IV. 137 One Cope of crimson velvet with scallop shells of silver. a 1618 Raleigh Pilgrimage 1 Give me my Scollap-Shell of Quiet, My Staff of Faith to lean upon. 1747 H. Glasse Cookery ix. 95 Put your Oysters into Scollop⁓shells for that purpose. 1819 Scott Ivanhoe xxviii, By the scallop-shell of Compostella, I will make a martyr of him. |
| attrib. 1807 W. Irving Salmag. (1811) II. 102 The outside of the boxes inlaid with scallop shell-work. |
2. Collectors' name for the moth
Triphosa (
Eucosmia)
undulata.
| 1829 J. F. Stephens Catal. Brit. Insects II. 140. |