/ · 1894 Brewer’s · R · Raboin or Rabuino (French)
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The devil; so called from the Spanish rubo (a tail). In the mediæval ages it was vulgarly asserted that the Jews were born with tails; this arose from a confusion of the word rabbi or rabbins with raboin or rabuino.
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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.
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