Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

St. Agatha

Represented in Christian art with a pair of shears, and holding in her hand a salver, on which her breasts are placed. The reference is to her martyrdom, when her breasts were cut off by a pair of shears.

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