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bluebeard

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blue·beard  (blbîrd)
n.
A man who first marries and then murders one wife after another.
[After Blue Beard, translation of French Barbe Bleue, a character in a story by Charles Perrault (1628-1703).]
Bluebeard [ˈbluːˌbɪəd]
n
1. (Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) a villain in European folk tales who marries several wives and murders them in turn. In many versions the seventh and last wife escapes the fate of the others
2. a man who has had several wives
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Noun1.Bluebeard - (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale - a story about fairies; told to amuse children
Translations
Bluebeard [ˈbluːbɪəd] N → Barba Azul


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If Red-Eye was a Bluebeard, Lop-Ear was hen-pecked; and I imagine that Red-Eye was too shrewd ever to covet Lop-Ear's wife.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
Maggie looked bewildered for a moment, and Tom enjoyed that moment keenly; but in the next she laughed, clapped her hands together, and said, "Oh, Tom, you've made yourself like Bluebeard at the show.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
The boy, curly-headed like his mother and glowing with health, sat on his knee, and Prince Andrew began telling him the story of Bluebeard, but fell into a reverie without finishing the story.
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