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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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Here you entered a book of hours populated by characters from Aesop, Grimm, Perrault, Lewis Carroll, and the Great Goddess of My Body, My Self, owls mingling with cats, bats, birds, butterflies, and babies, with Red Riding Hood and the wolf, with dead heads, dead monkeys, and head frogs, with pink bosoms, self-replicating vulvas, brains, and kidneys, with bluebeards and spinning spinsters, with doilies, moons, and masses of matted hair, with Dorothy, Alice, and Emily D.
Giuseppe Penone: Drawing Center, New York by Armstrong, Carol / Artforum International
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