white goat

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Noun[edit]

white goat (plural white goats)

  1. (obsolete) The mountain goat
    • 1905, Madison Grant, The Rocky Mountain Goat, New York : Office of the Society, page 22:
      There is no evidence whatever of the white goat having existed in Wyoming.
    • 1917, Fur News and Outdoor World, page 3:
      The white goat likes the regions of great precipitation, and it is most abundant in the high mountains where much snow falls.