(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
“Even the blood-red ear to Evangeline brought not her lover.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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