Crossword-Solution: BLUEBEARD
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| Bluebeard | n. | The hero of a mediaeval 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. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “BLUEBEARD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| *Villainous noble of a classic French tale | 1 answer |
| Ben and Dan | 1 answer |
| Brutal fairy-tale character | 1 answer |
| Fairy-tale character who was hard on wives | 1 answer |
| Fairy-tale wife-killer | 1 answer |
| Far from ideal husband. | 1 answer |
| Fatima's murderous spouse | 1 answer |
| Goatee for baseball's Vida? | 1 answer |
| Legendary polygamist and wife killer | 1 answer |
| Polygamous uxorcide. | 1 answer |
| Vida and James | 1 answer |
| Wife-killer of fairy tale | 1 answer |
| any man who murders his wife or wives | 1 answer |
| Fatima, husband of | 2 answers |
| Brutal castle dweller in folk tales | 2 answers |
| polygamist | 4 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with BLUEBEARD (5)
Bluebeard’s wives could have held a family reunion in that closet and invited all of Solomon’s spouses.
Instinct and Reason--Tailor Birds and Grosbeaks--The White Ant--Black Ants at War--Wanderoo Monkeys--Habits of Elephants--Elephants in the Lake--Herd of Elephants Bathing--Elephant-shooting--The Rencontre--The Charge--Caught by the Tail--Horse Gored by a Buffalo--Sagacity of Dogs--"Bluebeard"--His Hunt--A True Hound.
Except the Bluebeard room, which the poor child believed to be haunted, all others, from the attics to the cellars, were at our service; “the world was all before us,” and we pitched our tent for the night in any spot we chose.
The mania for handling all the sides of every question, looking into every window, and opening every door, was, as Bluebeard judiciously pointed out to his wives, fatal to their practical usefulness in society.
Well, anyhow, you know as well as I do that we all like that kind of play, whether we admit it or not—something along in between “Bluebeard, Jr.,” and “Cymbeline” played in the Russian.
Quotes with BLUEBEARD (3)
Pablo's many stories and reminiscences about Olga and Marie-Thérese and Dora Maar, as well as their continuing presence just offstage in our own life together, gradually made me realize that he had a kind of Bluebeard complex that made him want to cut off the heads of all women he had collected in his private museum. But he didn't cut the heads entirely off. He preferred to have life go on and to have all those women who had shared his life at one moment or another still lett…
Like ´Bluebeard´, the fairy tale of ´Snow White´does not record a single, appalling crime, but testifies to a structural and endemic conflict in society that was political and social as well as personal, producing many, many instances of similar violence.
Some psychological thinkers, including Freud and Bettelheim, have interpreted episodes such as those found in the Bluebeard tale as psychological punishments for women’s sexual curiosity.4 Early in the formulation of classical psychology women’s curiosity was given quite a negative connotation, whereas men with the same attribute were called investigative. Women were called nosy, whereas men were called inquiring. In reality, the trivialization of women’s curiosity so that it…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1956–2014).