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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Date: 1996
judas opening through which one can look without being seen. XIX. — F.
judas, transf. use of the name of the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ (Matt. 26: 48).
© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996.
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