Oystershell

noun

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Noun
  1. 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 […]"

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

Etymology

From oyster + shell.

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