Thesaurus: bluebeard

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1. n. The hero of a mediaeval 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.
2. The hero of a mediæval 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.
3. The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leavinghome, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in hiscastle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his formerwives.-- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden toinvestigate.The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own mustlook. Carlyle.
4. n. (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience