Definitions
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- proper noun A famous
fairytale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violentnobleman who has the habit ofmurdering hiswives and the attempts of hiscurrent wife toavoid the samefate . - proper noun The nobleman who is the
title character of the story. - noun A man who married and then murdered one wife after another.
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Examples
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ARDIANE AND BLUEBEARD: A resolute wife finally defies Bluebeard and rescues his wives; but they refuse to forsake their unfortunate and beloved husband.
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Gilles de Rais, the man who became known as Bluebeard, served under her in the French army.
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Bluebeard is a burlesque in the form of a transcribed lecture-recital describing a purported long-lost Wagner opera on the subject of the titular serial monogamist-murderer.
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What but that Bluebeard is not to be the sole personage in this music-drama; and we judge the stranger to be a female on account of the overwhelming circumstantial evidence just given.
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Bluebeard is a burlesque in the form of a transcribed lecture-recital describing a purported long-lost Wagner opera on the subject of the titular serial monogamist-murderer.
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Gilles de Rais, the man who became known as Bluebeard, served under her in the French army.
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What but that Bluebeard is not to be the sole personage in this music-drama; and we judge the stranger to be a female on account of the overwhelming circumstantial evidence just given.
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Now, why and how the name Bluebeard passed from King Comor to the Marshal de
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I have never been able to explain to myself why the name Bluebeard should have been attached to the Marshal, whose history certainly has no relation to the tale of the good Perrault. "
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But there was some kind of association with the notion of Bluebeard that she didn't quite like.
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