bluebeard

noun — 2 senses

bluebeard

nounalso spelled Bluebeard

Etymology From blue + beard.

1

Any of the genus Caryopteris of plants native to eastern Asia, now cultivated in gardens.

Derived terms: common bluebeard, Mongolian bluebeard
Related terms: bluebead

Bluebeard

noun

Etymology Calque of French Barbe-Bleue (literally “blue beard”).

1

A man who marries and then murders one wife after another.

Henry never lived down his reputation as a Bluebeard, and only a few years before his death sporting gentlemen in Antwerp were laying bets that the English Lothario would divorce and marry once again.2012, Lacey Baldwin-Smith, Henry VIII, page c:

Derived terms: Bluebeardesque

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