Scottish Blackface

noun

1

: a Scottish breed of hardy black-faced long-wooled mutton sheep used especially in crossbreeding for better meat production

2

or Scottish blackface : a sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed

Word History

First Known Use

1899, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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