'Bluebeard' definitions:
Definition of 'Bluebeard'
(from WordNet)
noun
(fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
Definition of 'Bluebeard'
From: 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]