单词 | bluebeard |
释义 | Bluebeardn. A man who resembles Bluebeard in his treatment of women; spec. one who murders his wives. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of wife Bluebeard1795 uxoricide1860 1795 R. Cumberland Wheel of Fortune v. 77 I'm not such a Blue-beard to deliver my daughter bound hands and feet into your castle. 1823 J. Kenney Sweethearts & Wives ii. i. 37 There's polybigamy! here's a young Blue Beard!—Meet in the garden, will they? 1867 L. M. Child Romance of Republic i. ii. 27 Floracita..said sportively, ‘If some cruel Blue-Beard should shut us up in his castle, we will send for you.’ 1984 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. (Book Review section) 38/3 The trial of Henri Désiré Landru, a Bluebeard active in France around the time of the First World War. 1997 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 12 Dec. 22/1 The tiny band of survivors at the court of that English bluebeard, Henry VIII. Compounds C1. attributive, designating a place in which a person keeps something hidden, esp. something shocking or controversial, as Bluebeard closet, Bluebeard room, etc.Frequently in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1821 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater in London Mag. Sept. 303/1 That room was to her the Blue-beard room of the house. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. i. 410 The Bluebeard Chamber of her mind, into which no eye but her own must ever look. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Let. Dec. (1899) 207 I hope from my outcries about printing you do not think I want you to keep my news or letters in a Bluebeard closet. 1905 E. F. Heddle Secret of Turret xi. 123 He has his skeleton! Do you know that, Joy? He has his Blue-Beard room! 1994 T. M. Disch in E. Datlow & T. Windling Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 102 The ‘Bluebeard’ room in which he had stored the personal possessions of his earlier victims. C2. ΚΠ 1832 N.-Y. Mirror 25 Feb. 269/1 He is a stem blue-beard looking sort of man. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 29 About half a mile from the town [sc. Naples], are certain Bluebeard-looking towers..erected for the purpose of snaring wood-pigeons. 1889 P. Williams in Notes & Gleanings (Exeter) 2 56/1 Some of the party expressing a desire to see what might be inside this Bluebeard-looking place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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