Meanings
nounblack ewe (plural black ewes)
plural black ewes
- figurativelyA female black sheep.
He shook his head mournfully, and frowned, as he contemplated this embarrassing gaffe of the black ewe of the family.
1964, Eric Forbes-Boyd, In Crusader Greece: A Tour of the Castles of the Morea, page 117
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