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(n.) The hero of a mediaeval 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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bluebeard'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/bluebeard.html. 1828.
 
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