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Bluebeard
[ bloo-beerd ]
noun
- a fairy-tale character whose seventh wife found the bodies of her predecessors in a room she had been forbidden to enter.
- any man alleged to have murdered a number of his wives or other women.
Bluebeard
/ ˈːˌɪə /
noun
- a villain in European folk tales who marries several wives and murders them in turn. In many versions the seventh and last wife escapes the fate of the others
- a man who has had several wives
Bluebeard
- A fairy tale character from the Charles Perrault collection. The character is a monstrous villain who marries seven women in turn and warns them not to look behind a certain door of his castle. Inside the room are the corpses of his former wives. Bluebeard kills six wives for their disobedience before one passes his test.
Other Word Forms
- ܱbi noun
Example Sentences
A prosecutor called him “the greatest cold-blooded killer since Bluebeard,” and a judge called him the most evil defendant he’d ever seen.
Davies is not a great hall acoustically, but on my recent visit, Salonen conducted the most sonically astounding performance of Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” I have ever heard.
A further revelation came after intermission with an even more impressive concert performance of Bartók’s “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” that demonstrated the radical difference between theater and synesthesia.
In “A Bluebeard of Wives,” Mark ponders her place as her husband’s third spouse.
In “Bluebeard,” it’s intimate — the slow-burning drama of a wife unveiling her new husband’s pained world, to the destruction of them both.
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