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bluebeard
blue·beard [ bl brd ] (plural blue·beards) or Blue·beard [ bl brd ] (plural Blue·beards)


noun 
Definition:
 
wife killer: a man who marries and then kills successive wives
[Early 19th century. After Blue Beard, translation of French Barbe Bleue, character in a story by Charles Perrault (1628-1703)]
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