The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
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Bluebeard
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.
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