| Pronunciation: | 'bloo`beerd | ||
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| Definition: | [n] (fairy tale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience | ||
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| See Also: | character, fictional character, fictitious character | ||
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| Definition: | \Blue"beard\, n. The hero of a medi[ae]val 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. | ||
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