scalloped
adjective C2- Having an edge or border marked with semicircles.
- Cooked gratin; baked in a typical type of sauce, usually with cheese, as a casserole, e.g. scalloped potatoes; scalloped corn
- Baked in a scallop shell.
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In vain she nibbled at the bread and butter and pecked at the crab-apple preserve out of the little scalloped glass dish by her plate.
Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in, and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the following effusion:
“All right,” said Joe, reaching for the blue scalloped vegetable dish.
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