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Barber

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Every barber knows that

“Omnibus notum tonsoribus.”


Horace: 1 Satires, VII. 3.

In Rome the tonstriʹnæ or barbersʹ shops were the fashionable resort of loungers and idlers. Here every scandal was known, and all the talk of the town was repeated.

 

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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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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
Barbier
Barcarole
Barcelona (A)
Barclayans
Barcochebah or Barchõchebas (Shimeon)
Bardesanists
Bardit