Brewer's: Judas-coloured Hair

Fiery-red. Cain is represented with red hair.

“His very hair is of the dissembling colour, something browner than Judas's.” —Shakespeare: As You Like It, iii. 4.

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