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bluebeard (BLOO-beerd) nounA man who marries and kills one wife after another.
[After Bluebeard, the nickname of the main character Raoul in a fairy tale by Charles Perrault (1628-1703). In the story, Bluebeard’s wife finds the bodies of his previous wives in a room she was forbidden to enter. Yes, he did have a blue beard.]