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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Maize

(1 syl.). According to American superstition, if a damsel finds a blood-red ear of maize, she will have a suitor before the year is over.

“Even the blood-red ear to Evangeline brought not her lover.”

Longfellow: Evangeline.

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