Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Hair of a Dissembling Colour.

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Hair devoted to Proserpine.

Hair of the Dog that Bit You (A).

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Hair of a Dissembling Colour.

Red hair is so-called, from the notion that Judas had red hair.

“Rosalind. His very hair is of the dissembling colour [red].

Celia. Somewhat browner than Judas’s.”—Shakespeare: As You Like It, iii. 4.

Hair devoted to Proserpine.

Hair of the Dog that Bit You (A).

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