Bluebeard
['blu:,biəd]
Definition
(noun.) (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience.
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Definition
(n.) 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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Examples
- You will set me down as a species of tyrant and Bluebeard, starving women in a garret; whereasafter all, I am no such thing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But you need not be afraid of my mystery; I have no Bluebeard chamber to keep locked, I assure you. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Bluebeard's wife--Sisera's mother--were nothing to him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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