different between scallop vs madeleine

English

Alternative forms

• scollop (rare, chiefly British)

Etymology

From Old French escalope (“shell”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): (rhymes with trollop) /?sk?l?p/, (rhymes with gallop) /?skæl?p/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): (rhymes with trollop) /?sk?l?p/, (rhymes with gallop) /?skæl?p/
• (traditional New England) IPA^(key): (rhymes with trollop) /?sk?l?p/
• (UK) IPA^(key): (rhymes with gallop) /?skal?p/, (rhymes with trollop) /?sk?l?p/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): (rhymes with gallop) /?sk?l?p/, (rhymes with trollop) /?sk?l?p/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): (rhymes with gallop) /?skal?p/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): (rhymes with gallop) /?skal?p/
• Rhymes: -æl?p, -?l?p

Noun

scallop (plural scallops)

1. Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the family Pectinidae which are free-swimming.

   Synonyms: (UK) scollop, (parts of Australia) sea scallop

2. One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell.
3. (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
4. (cooking) A form of fried potato.

   Synonyms: (parts of Australia) potato cake, (parts of Australia) potato scallop

5. A dish shaped like a scallop shell.

Usage notes

To specify bivalves, rather than fillets of meat or potatoes, sea scallop and similar terms may be used instead. This is particularly done when several of these are used, such as in cookbooks and in parts of Australia.

Derived terms

• Yesso scallop (Mizuhopecten yessoensis)

Translations

Verb

scallop (third-person singular simple present scallops, present participle scalloping, simple past and past participle scalloped)

1. To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
2. (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
3. (intransitive) To harvest scallops

Translations

Further reading

• scallop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• callops

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French madeleine, from earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier, whose existence is now considered dubious.

In sense 2, used with reference to the cake's function in the extract below, taken from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mad(?)l?n/, /?mad(?)l?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæd?l?n/, /?mæd??le?n/

Noun

madeleine (plural madeleines)

1. A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
2. (figuratively) Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories.

Translations

Further reading

• “madeleine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “madeleine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• madeleine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from French madeleine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?del?i?n/, [?m?de?l?i?n]

Noun

madeleine

1. madeleine (small gateau in the shape of a scallop shell)

   Synonym: madeleine-leivos

Declension

French

Etymology

From earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: see more above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.dl?n/

• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

madeleine f (plural madeleines)

1. madeleine (small gateau in the shape of a scallop shell)
2. (figuratively) madeleine (something which brings back a memory)

Derived terms

• pleurer comme une madeleine

Descendants

• ? Catalan: magdalena
• ? English: madeleine
• ? German: Madeleine

Further reading

• “madeleine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).