Bluebeard

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bluebeard \Blue"beard\, n.
     The hero of a medi[ae]val 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.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye
           but his own must look.                   --Carlyle.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Bluebeard
       n : (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he
           kills the first six for disobedience