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Cain-coloured Beard
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.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Cain-coloured Beard from Infoplease:
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