scallop

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Chartreuse of vegetables.—Consists of vegetables tastefully arranged in a plain mould, which is then filled with either game, pigeons, larks, tendons, scollops, or anything suitably prepared.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 by Peters, Charles

None stone me now,” and he played with the bells on the scollops of it.

From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard

"I think," replied Mrs. Brantley, "that scollops are the prettiest."

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

Right from the old pa on the top of Marahemo down to the very foot, there's the Maori middens: a regular reef of nothing but shell, oysters and pipi and scollops and all the rest.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by Hay, William Delisle

The bar-tender, hoisting his eyebrows to his scollops of gummed hair, winked at the New South Waler with infinite meaning, and pointed to a cut-glass carafe that stood on the shining nickel-plated counter.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard