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Barʹbason

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A fiend mentioned by Shakespeare in the Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2, and in Henry V., ii. 1.

“Amaimon sounds well, Lucifer well, Barbason well; yet they are … the names of flends.”—Merry Wives.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bar (Trial at)
Barabas
Barataria
Barăthron
Barb
Barb
Barbari
Barbarians
Barbarossa [Red-beard, similar to Rufus]
Barbary
Barbason
Barbazure (or Blue-Beard)
Barbe (Ste.)
Barbecue
Barbed Steed (a corruption of barded)
Barbel
Barbeliots
Barber
Barber Poet
Barber’s Pole
Barbican (The) or Barbacan