barnet fair

"Just to clear things up, barnet does in fact come from Barnet Fair, meaning hair.

Mind you, I've never heard of Barnet Fair.

"I always thought that Barnet meant hair, from Barnet Fair.

High Barnet - Opened on the site of the old Barnet Fair.

It has displays on topics including the Battle of Barnet, Barnet Fair and Market.

The term 'Barnet Fair', normally shortened to 'Barnet', has become rhyming slang for 'hair'.

It is also the site of an ancient and well-known horse fair, whence comes the rhyming slang of Barnet Fair or barnet for 'hair'.

Barnet Fair is an annual horse and pleasure fair held near Mays Lane, Barnet, England, on the first Monday in September.

Former midfielder Ray Parlour has been teaching the forward, who signed for the Gunners in August, to distinguish his "loaf of bread", head, from his "Barnet Fair", hair.

But Liam Keniry had followed de Giles" instructions to the letter and brought Kingsgate Choice late and fast to win the £43,000 first prize by a head from Racy, with Barnet Fair and Long Awaited staying on for third and fourth.