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La Coquille (French pronunciation: [la kɔkij]; Occitan: La Coquilha) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.. La Coquille was on one of the five routes leading to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and it was in this parish that pilgrims were given a coquille Saint-Jacques, a scallop shell symbolic of the Way of St. James, the celebrated pilgrimage ...
Pecten maximus, common names the great scallop, king scallop, St James shell or escallop, is a northeast Atlantic species of scallop, an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. This is the type species of the genus.
"Sea Shells by the Sea Shore" November 23, 2017 () Marcus Samuelsson, Michael Voltaggio: Sea Urchin: Ed Harris, Jason McLeod: Michael Schulson, Abigail Hitchcock, Alain Allegretti Coquilles St.-Jacques Bobby Flay 166 7 "Rotten Tomatoes for Bobby" November 30, 2017 () Scott Conant, Helene Yorke: Green Tomatoes
Coquilles St. Jacques – the French term for scallops, and the Anglo-American term for the popular scallop dish with butter and garlic, owe their name to St. James the Great (died 44 AD), fisherman and first martyred apostle.
Saint James the Elder was painted by Rembrandt in 1661. He is depicted clothed as a pilgrim, with a scallop shell on his shoulder, and his staff and pilgrim's hat beside him. In the Catholic tradition, Saint James is the patron saint of Spain and, according to legend, his remains are held in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia.
Scallop (/ ˈ s k ɒ l ə p, ˈ s k æ l ə p /) [a] is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops.However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters.
The town of Madisonville is located on the banks of the Tchefuncte River, near where the river enters Lake Pontchartrain. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 2.51 square miles (6.51 km 2 ), of which 2.49 square miles (6.46 km 2 ) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.06 km 2 ), or 0.86%, is water. [ 6 ]
Coquille / k oʊ ˈ k iː l / is a city in, and the county seat of, Coos County, Oregon, United States. The population was 4,015 at the 2020 census . The primary economic base is the timber industry.