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A city, the county seat of Coos County, Oregon, United States.
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noun
A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.
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noun
A scallop shell or a dish shaped like one, especially when used to serve the aforementioned food.
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noun
A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
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noun
A member of a Native American people who historically lived in the Coquille River watershed and nearby coast south of Coos Bay.
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noun
a dish in the form of a scallop shell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dish
noun
seafood served in a scallop shell
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Broader terms: dish
History
From French coquille.
Borrowed from French coquille. See also cockle.
