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Webster 1913 Edition
Bluebeard
Blue′beard
,Noun.
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.
Definition 2024
Bluebeard
Bluebeard
English
Proper noun
Bluebeard
- A famous fairytale 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.
Translations
the famous fairytale
the title character
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Noun
Bluebeard (plural Bluebeards)
- A man who married and then murdered one wife after another.
References
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary of the English Language, International Encyclopedic Edition, 2002.