oystershell

noun

oystershell

noun

Etymology From oyster + shell.

1

The shell of an oyster.

The very poor will sometimes adorn the graves of those they love with oystershells, or flintstones, or small plaster busts, or tiles […]1858, Ecclesiological Society, The Ecclesiologist:

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