Bluebeard

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B0342500 (blo͞o′bîrd′)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) n1. (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 others2. a man who has had several wives

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n. a man who successively marries and murders several wives. [after the villain in a fairy tale by C. Perrault]

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Noun

Bluebeard - (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobediencefairy story, fairy tale, fairytale - a story about fairies; told to amuse children

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Bluebeard,

nickname of the chevalier Raoul in a story by Charles Perrault. In the story Bluebeard's seventh wife, Fatima, yielding to curiosity, opens a locked door and discovers the slain bodies of her predecessors. She is saved from death by the timely arrival of her brothers, for whose coming her sister Anne has been watching from a tower. Breton tradition links Bluebeard with the seigneur de Retz, but the story occurs in the folklore of several countries.

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closets away bodies of former wives. [Fr. Fairy Tale: Harvey, 97–98]See: Murder

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(Henri Désiré Landru, 1869–1922) executed for murders of ten women (1915–18). [Fr. Hist.: EB (1972), XIII, 661See: Murder

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chevalier slays his six wives; seventh evades similar fate. [Fr. Fairy Tale: Harvey, 96–97]See: Polygamy

Bluebeard

murders six wives; a personification of wickedness. [Fr. Lit.: Walsh Classical, 58]See: Wickedness

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noun (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women

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