Brewer's: Amedamnée

(French), a scape-goat.

“He is the ame damnée of everyone about the court—the scapegoat, who is to carry away all their iniquities.” —SirWalterScott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. 48.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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