Scalloping
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Scalloping is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of scallop.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of scallop.
More Meanings
- A scalloped pattern.
Example Sentences
The more inland, lighter race is distinguished from A. u. uropygialis in being much paler on the back, by the edgings of the forehead scallopings and auriculars being paler, and by having the brown of the forehead less deep and less rufescent.
Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
Word Forms
- scallopings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scollop, cutlet, endosteal, scall, scarpland, scalping.
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