Barabas.

The hero of Marlow’s tragedy, The Jew of Multa.

“A mere monster, brought in with a large painted nose… . He kills in sport, poisons whole nunneries, invents infernal machines… .”—C. Lamb.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Bantling
Banyan
Bap or Baphomet
Baptes
Baptist
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar (Trial at)
Barabas
Barataria
Barăthron
Barb
Barb
Barbari
Barbarians
Barbarossa [Red-beard, similar to Rufus]
Barbary
Barbason
Barbazure (or Blue-Beard)