Bluebeard

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English

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Bluebeard by Harry Clarke

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Bluebeard

  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. The nobleman who is the title character of the story.

Translations

Noun

Bluebeard (plural Bluebeards)

  1. A man who marries and then murders one wife after another.
    • 2012, Lacey Baldwin-Smith, Henry VIII, page c:
      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.

Derived terms

References

  • Webster's Collegiate Dictionary of the English Language, International Encyclopedic Edition, 2002.
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