Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A thin boneless slice of meat.

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  • noun A thin slice of meat, especially veal or poultry.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, of dialectal origin (northeast France), from Old French escalope, snail shell (the slice of meat perhaps being so called because it was served rolled up); see scallop.]

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Borrowing from French escalope. Compare scallop.

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Examples

  • The fish brought to them, resplendent on a large platter, had a body that bore no relationship to the fine head, while the veal escalope was revealed, beneath the breadcrumbs, to be a thin slice of horsemeat.

    Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis 2011

  • Faced with a really appalling menu in the Debate Portcullis House, I plumped for turkey escalope with apricot cous cous, potato wedges and peas.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Kerron Cross 2006

  • We had turkey in a cream sauce, pork tenderloin, turkey escalope, and Missippi steak and a bottle of

    Chez Stella Etienne 2006

  • Faced with a really appalling menu in the Debate Portcullis House, I plumped for turkey escalope with apricot cous cous, potato wedges and peas.

    Cold Hard Politics Kerron Cross 2006

  • Scallop, with its unusually symmetrical and patterned valves, comes via the Middle French escalope, from a Germanic word for “shell.”

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Scallop, with its unusually symmetrical and patterned valves, comes via the Middle French escalope, from a Germanic word for “shell.”

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • He also makes his own sausages, prepares chicken cordon bleu for the oven, makes veal escalope, and has a machine that cooks many brochettes in no time at all.

    JOIE DE VIVRE ROBERT ARBOR 2003

  • An 'she made me veal escalope an' we had another wallop

    Leo McGuire's Song 1998

  • We both choose the escalope de saumon tiède as a starter.

    Slate Articles David Pilling 2011

  • A "scallop" of meat, or "escalope" in French, is "a thin, boneless, round- or oval-shaped slice of meat or fish," according to the "Food Lover's Companion."

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Sophie Brickman 2011

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