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Bluebeard

Syllabification: (Blue·beard)
Pronunciation: /ˈblo͞oˌbi(ə)rd/

Definition of Bluebeard
  • a character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (circa 1400–40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him).
  • (as noun a Bluebeard) a man who murders his wives.

Bluebeard in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Bluebeard in the British & World English dictionary