bluebeard Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
WordNet
Blue"beard noun
Definitions
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.
