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bluebeard

N ชาย เจ้าชู้ มี มาก เมีย 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BLUEBEARD

BLUEBEARD Blue "beard, n.

 

Defn: The hero of a mediæval 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. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Bluebeard

Blue beard |ˈblo͞oˌbi (ə )rd ˈblubɪərd | a 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 ). (as noun a Bluebeard ) a man who murders his wives.

 

Oxford Dictionary

Bluebeard

Blue |beard |ˈbluːbɪəd | a 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 ). (as noun a Bluebeard ) a man who murders his wives.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

Bluebeard

Bl e b ard 名詞 1 青ひげ 〘命令に背いた6人の妻を次々と殺害した童話の人物 〙.2 C 〖時にb -〗何人も妻を殺して取り替える男 .