SCALLOPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scalloped mean? 

• SCALLOPED (adjective)
  The adjective SCALLOPED has 1 sense:

1. having a margin with rounded scallops

  Familiarity information: SCALLOPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCALLOPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a margin with rounded scallops

Synonyms:

crenate; crenated; scalloped

Similar:

rough (of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped)

 Context examples 

With an alacrity beyond the common impulse of a spirit which yet was never indifferent to the credit of doing every thing well and attentively, with the real good-will of a mind delighted with its own ideas, did she then do all the honours of the meal, and help and recommend the minced chicken and scalloped oysters, with an urgency which she knew would be acceptable to the early hours and civil scruples of their guests.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Our eyes lifted over the rosebeds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog days along shore. Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky. Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)