Bluebeard
noun
a fairy-tale character whose seventh wife found the bodies of her predecessors in a room she had been forbidden to enter.
Bluebeardism
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a word derived from
Bluebeard.
Example Sentences
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By the end of the month even Raphael shows signs of being a little weary of his scarcely veiled incitements to Bluebeardism.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
Women always seem to sniff for Bluebeardism in a bachelor's apartment.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
