Redheadedness

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547. Redheadedness

  1. Cortés, Hernando (14851547) conquistador received by Montezuma as god because of height and red hair. [Mex. Hist.: NCE, 662]
  2. Esau Isaacs son. [O.T.: Genesis 25:25]
  3. Judas Iscariot so depicted in art. [Christian Icon.: Gaster, 165]
  4. Little Orphan Annie heroine of comic strip. [Comics: Horn, 459]
  5. Red-Headed League, the non-existent club used to draw a redhead away from where he could interfere with a bank robbery. [Br. Lit.: The Red-Headed League in Sherlock Holmes ]

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