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Judas-colored

Ju"das-col`ored\, a. Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.

There's treachery in that Judas-colored beard. --Dryden.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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