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Barabas

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The hero of Marlow’s tragedy, The Jew of Multa.

“A mere monster, brought in with a large painted nose… . He kills in sport, poisons whole nunneries, invents infernal machines… .”—C. Lamb.

 

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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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Bantling
Banyan
Bap or Baphomet
Baptes
Baptist
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar (Trial at)
Barabas
Barataria
Barăthron
Barb
Barb
Barbari
Barbarians
Barbarossa [Red-beard, similar to Rufus]
Barbary
Barbason
Barbazure (or Blue-Beard)