Yellow, symbolic of treason. In the ancient tapestries Cain and Judas are represented with yellow beards. (See Yellow.)
“He hath but a little wee face, with a little yellow heard, a Cain-coloured beard.”—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 4.
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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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