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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bluebeard \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Bluebeard n : (fairy tale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience [syn: {Bluebeard}]
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