Barbarossa [Red-beard, similar to Rufus]
.The surname of Frederick I. of Germany (1121–1190). Also Khaireddin Barbarossa, a famous corsair of the sixteenth century.
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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.