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Bluebeard

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A famous fairy tale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of his current wife to avoid the same fate.
  2. 2
    The nobleman who is the title character of the story.
Noun
  1. 1
    A man who marries and then murders one wife after another.

    "Henry never lived down his reputation as a Bluebeard, and only a few years before his death sporting gentlemen in Antwerp were laying bets that the English Lothario would divorce and marry once again."

  2. 2
    Any of the genus Caryopteris of plants native to eastern Asia, now cultivated in gardens. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Calque of French Barbe-Bleue (literally “blue beard”).

Etymology 2

Calque of French Barbe-Bleue (literally “blue beard”).

Etymology 3

From blue + beard.

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