English Explanatory Dictionary

scape-bird

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bird that has symbolically had human diseases and sins transferred to it and then is released into the wild to carry away the afflictions.

Word forms

scape-bird scape-birds

Etymology

From scape + bird; modelled on scapegoat.

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