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BLUEBEARD
Bluebeard
(noun) (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Bluebeard
A famous fairy tale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of his current wife to avoid the same fate.
The nobleman who is the title character of the story.
Noun
Bluebeard (plural Bluebeards)
A man who marries and then murders one wife after another.
Source: Wiktionary
Blue"beard, n.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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