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blood royal

American  

noun

  1. all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin.

    a prince of the blood royal.


Etymology

Origin of blood royal

First recorded in 1595–1605

Example Sentences

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Princes of the blood royal are not supposed to be treated that way.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2011

She was a princess of the Swedish blood royal, he was a poor but honest piano player.

From Time Magazine Archive

Swiftly he pierced between two ribs, pierced further, and introduced a drainage tube into a festering pus pocket, in the lower section of the right lung, which had been exuding poison into the blood royal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shielded by the howdah curtains sat King Monivong and others of the blood royal whose stern stomachs easily withstood the motion.

From Time Magazine Archive

“If this were a monarchy, and one or both of them were of the blood royal, there would be an excuse for reports and speculation with regard to their relations to each other.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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