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Webster 1913 Edition


Bluebeard

Blue′beard

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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.