A personage of popular mythology, so called from the color of his beard. References are frequent in literature to the locked turret-chamber, in which hung the bodies of his murdered wives.
1822. De Quincey, Confess. That room was to her the Blue-beard room of the house.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1859), I. V. i. 410 (in Brewer). The Bluebeard Chamber of her mind, into which no eye but her own must ever look.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 29. About half a mile from the town [Naples], are certain Bluebeard-looking towers … erected for the purpose of snaring wood-pigeons.
