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Definition of Bluebeard
1. Noun. (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience.
Generic synonyms: Character, Fictional Character, Fictitious Character
Definition of Bluebeard
1. n. 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.
Definition of Bluebeard
1. Proper noun. A famous fairytale 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. ¹
2. Proper noun. The nobleman who is the title character of the story. ¹
3. Noun. A man who married and then murdered one wife after another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bluebeard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluebeard
Literary usage of Bluebeard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and by Walter Jekyll, Alice Werner, C. S. Myers, Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (1907)
"THERE was a man named Mr. bluebeard. He got his wife in his house an' he general
... An' Mr. bluebeard was a old-witch an' know what was going on at home. ..."
2. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo: With Memoirs of His Late Father and Friends by Henry Angelo (1830)
"The following may be given as a specimen of his poetry at Wargrave, where he
wrote the dialogue and songs of " bluebeard," which was performed there. ..."
3. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus (1906)
"bluebeard was no more a creation of Perrault or of Offenbach than Don Juan was
a creation of ... Both really lived, but bluebeard the more demoniacally. ..."
4. Blue-beard, a Contribution to History and Folk-lore: Being the History of by Thomas Wilson (1899)
"... APPENDIX B bluebeard STORIES The story of bluebeard has permeated modern
literature. Reference is made to some of its publications. ..."
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