Bluebeard

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Proper noun

Bluebeard

1. A famous fairytale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of his current wife to avoid the same fate.
2. The nobleman who is the title character of the story.

Translations

the famous fairytale

Arabic: اللحية الزرقاء (ar) (al-líHya al-zarqaa') f. Chinese: Mandarin: 藍鬍子 (zh), 蓝胡子 (zh) (Lán Húzi) French: Barbe-Bleue (fr) f. German: Blaubart (de) f.

Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 青ひげ (ja) (あおひげ, Ao-hige) (青髭 (ja)) Norwegian: please add this translation if you can Russian: Синяя Борода (ru) (Sínjaja Borodá) f.

the title character

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 藍鬍子 (zh), 蓝胡子 (zh) (Lán Húzi) French: Barbe-Bleue (fr) f. German: Blaubart (de) f. Italian: Barbablù (it) m.

Japanese: 青ひげ (ja) (あおひげ, Ao-hige) (青髭 (ja)) Norwegian: Ridder Blåskjegg (no) Polish: Sinobrody (pl) m. Portuguese: Barba Azul (pt) m. Russian: Синяя Борода (ru) (Sínjaja Borodá) f.

Noun

Bluebeard (plural Bluebeards)

1. A man who married and then murdered one wife after another.

References

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary of the English Language, International Encyclopedic Edition, 2002.