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scalloped oysters

scalloped oysters is the plural of scalloped oyster.

Meaning of scalloped oyster

Noun

scalloped oyster (plural scalloped oysters)

  1. An opened oyster baked in a deep dish with alternate layers of bread or cracker crumbs, seasoned with pepper, nutmeg, and butter.
    • "Poor things! they needed it," said she one night to her husband, during the discussion of some scalloped oysters, over which their mutual confidences usually took place.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 122

Questions about scalloped oysters

What is scalloped oysters the plural of?
Scalloped oysters is the plural of scalloped oyster.

Words near scalloped oysters in the dictionary

  1. scallop shell
  2. scallop squash
  3. scallop theorem
  4. scalloped
  5. scalloped oyster
  6. scalloped oysters
  7. scalloped sack-bearer
  8. scalloped sack-bearers
  9. scalloper
  10. scallopers
  11. scalloping

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