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Definition of Bluebeard
1. Noun. (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience.
Generic synonyms: Character, Fictional Character, Fictitious Character
Definition of Bluebeard
1. n. 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.
Definition of Bluebeard
1. Proper noun. 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. ¹
2. Proper noun. The nobleman who is the title character of the story. ¹
3. Noun. A man who married and then murdered one wife after another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bluebeard
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