Definition of Bluebeard in English:

Bluebeard

proper nounˈbluːbɪədˈblubɪrd

1A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400–40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him).
1. 1.1as noun a Bluebeard A man who murders his wives.
  you seem to imply I'm some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated
  Example sentencesExamples
  We have graduated in a single generation from the bogeyman of the Vietnam vet turned sociopath to the bogeyman of the antiwar radical turned Bluebeard.
  In my mind he assumes the proportions of a Bluebeard, all the more sinister for being so thoroughly outwardly respectable.
  Yet Torquilstone is more of a Bluebeard's castle than a Briar Rose's castle, ruled over as it is by a Norman robber baron.
  Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation.

Definition of Bluebeard in US English:

Bluebeard

proper nounˈblo͞obirdˈblubɪrd

1A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400–40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him).
1. 1.1as noun a Bluebeard A man who murders his wives.
  you seem to imply I'm some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated
  Example sentencesExamples
  Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation.
  We have graduated in a single generation from the bogeyman of the Vietnam vet turned sociopath to the bogeyman of the antiwar radical turned Bluebeard.
  In my mind he assumes the proportions of a Bluebeard, all the more sinister for being so thoroughly outwardly respectable.
  Yet Torquilstone is more of a Bluebeard's castle than a Briar Rose's castle, ruled over as it is by a Norman robber baron.

单词	Bluebeard
释义	Definition of Bluebeard in English: Bluebeard proper nounˈbluːbɪədˈblubɪrd 1A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400–40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him). 1.1as noun a Bluebeard A man who murders his wives. you seem to imply I'm some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated Example sentencesExamples We have graduated in a single generation from the bogeyman of the Vietnam vet turned sociopath to the bogeyman of the antiwar radical turned Bluebeard. In my mind he assumes the proportions of a Bluebeard, all the more sinister for being so thoroughly outwardly respectable. Yet Torquilstone is more of a Bluebeard's castle than a Briar Rose's castle, ruled over as it is by a Norman robber baron. Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation. Definition of Bluebeard in US English: Bluebeard proper nounˈblo͞obirdˈblubɪrd 1A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400–40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him). 1.1as noun a Bluebeard A man who murders his wives. you seem to imply I'm some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated Example sentencesExamples Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation. We have graduated in a single generation from the bogeyman of the Vietnam vet turned sociopath to the bogeyman of the antiwar radical turned Bluebeard. In my mind he assumes the proportions of a Bluebeard, all the more sinister for being so thoroughly outwardly respectable. Yet Torquilstone is more of a Bluebeard's castle than a Briar Rose's castle, ruled over as it is by a Norman robber baron.
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