| bluebeard | (n) (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience |
| Bluebeard | n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ] The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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