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pilgrims' shells

pilgrims' shells is the plural of pilgrim's shell.

Meaning of pilgrim's shell

Noun

pilgrim's shell (plural pilgrim's shells or pilgrims' shells)

  1. A scallop or cockleshell used as a sign that one had visited the Holy Land or representing the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) pilgrimage in Spain, especially of species Pecten jacobaeus or P. maximus.
    1. (broadly) Synonym of scallop.

Questions about pilgrims' shells

What is pilgrims' shells the plural of?
Pilgrims' shells is the plural of pilgrim's shell.

Words near pilgrims' shells in the dictionary

  1. pilgrimizes
  2. pilgrimizing
  3. pilgrimless
  4. pilgrimlike
  5. pilgrims
  6. pilgrims' shells
  7. Pilgrimstad
  8. pilgrimwise
  9. pili
  10. Pili Ilawod
  11. Pili Iraya

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