Found 2 items, similar to bluebeard.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Bluebeard Bluebeard n : (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
English → English (gcide) Definition: Bluebeard 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]