judas-colored

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judas-colored - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Judas-colored \Ju"das-col`ored\, a.
     Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and
     beard.
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           There's treachery in that Judas-colored beard.
                                                    --Dryden.
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