Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Barbason

A fiend mentioned by Shakespeare in the Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2, and in Henry V, ii. 1.

“Amaimon sounds well, Lucifer well, Barbason well; yet they are ... the names of fiends.” —Merry Wives.

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