bluebeard

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Not the men who won't let you; —such a bluebeard of a man as your guardian, for instance.

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  1. noun A man who first marries and then murders one wife after another.

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  • I have what I thought was a bluebeard bush, but it gets much bigger than the 3 ft mound they claimed.
  • Not the men who won't let you; —such a bluebeard of a man as your guardian, for instance. —  The Gold of Chickaree
  • The old bluebeard Henry, who spent his whole time in murdering his wives, was a nursery toy. —  The Life of Froude
  • Écrit: unshared/gray/eat (ate)/judgment/northeast/visiter/mayhap/realizing/considerative/recognized/pettinesses/troublous/chestnutting/merrymakings/bluebeard/pic-nic? —  The Gold of Chickaree
 

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  1. After Blue Beard, translation of French Barbe Bleue, a character in a story by Charles Perrault (1628-1703).
 

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