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.
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.