Another variant or archaic form of scroll, referring to a rolled document or a decorative spiral ornament.
From Old French, similar to escrol but with an extra 'l,' showing spelling variation in Middle English before standardization.
The fact that 'scroll' has variants like 'escroll' and 'escrol' shows that medieval scribes and printers hadn't agreed on how to spell words—it was anarchy until printing presses enforced consistency.
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