escalope

Borrowed from French escalope. Compare scallop.

Sable three escalopes argent

escalope (plural escalopes)

1. A thin slice of meat, especially veal or poultry.
2. (heraldry) A charge (depiction) of the scallop.

• scallop

• opalesce

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ka.lɔp/

escalope f (plural escalopes)

1. an escalope, a thin slice of especially white meat

• “escalope” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French escale, from Frankish *skallija. Doublet of écaille (“scale”).

escalope f (oblique plural escalopes, nominative singular escalope, nominative plural escalopes)

1. shell (hard outer covering)

• English: escalope, scallop
• French: escalope
• Norman: scalope (Jersey)