English Explanatory Dictionary

coquille

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.
  2. A scallop shell or a dish shaped like one, especially when used to serve the aforementioned food.
  3. A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
name
  1. A city, the county seat of Coos County, Oregon, United States.
noun
  1. A member of a Native American people who historically lived in the Coquille River watershed and nearby coast south of Coos Bay.

Word forms

coquille coquilles Ko-Kwel Ko'Kwel

Etymology

Borrowed from French coquille. See also cockle.

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