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1. (n.) Bluebeard
a man who successively marries and murders several wives.
Etymology: (cf. blues)
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1. (noun) Bluebeard
(fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
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1. (noun) bluebeard
the hero of a mediaeval 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
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1. bluebeard
a wealthy seigneur, the owner of a castle; marries a beautiful woman, and leaves her in charge of the keys of the apartments in his absence, with injunctions not to unlock any of the doors, an injunction which she fails to respect, and finds to her horror the remains of his former wives locked up in one of them; her disobedience is discovered, and she is to prepare for death, but is rescued, as she lies with her head on the block, by the timely arrival of her brothers, who at once despatch the husband to his merited doom.
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