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Bartholomew pig; Bartholomew fair. Shakespeare called Falstaff a Bartholomew pig. This has long been the synonym for a very fat person, after the whole roasted pigs that were tradi- tionally sold at the Bartholomew Fair in London. The fair, held on St. Bartholomew’s Day (August 24th) from 1133 to 1855, was the center of London life. St. Bartholomew, martyred in Armenia in a. d. 44, has as his symbol a knife, in allusion to the knife with which he was flayed alive. |