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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Raboin

or Rabuino (French). The devil; so called from the Spanish rubo (a tail). In the mediaeval ages it was vulgarly asserted that the Jews were born with tails; this arose from a confusion of the word rabbi or rabbins with raboin or rabuino.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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