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Bluebeard|ˈbluːbɪəd|
A personage of popular mythology, so called from the colour of his beard. References are frequent in literature to the locked turret-chamber, in which hung the bodies of his murdered wives.
1822De Quincey Confess., That room was to her the Blue-beard room of the house. 18..Carlyle (in Brewer) The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. 1854Badham Halieut. 29 About half a mile from the town [Naples], are certain Bluebeard-looking towers..erected for the purpose of snaring wood-pigeons. |