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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Bluebeard n 1: (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience