Definitions for: Bluebeard

[n] (fairy tale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience

Webster (1913) Definition: Blue"beard, n.
The hero of a medi[ae]val 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.

See Also: character, fictional character, fictitious character

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