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blue blood
[ bloo bluhd bloo bluhd ]
noun
- an aristocrat, noble, or member of a socially prominent family.
- aristocratic, noble, or socially prominent lineage or relatives:
They boasted a lineage of pure blue blood.
blue blood
noun
- royal or aristocratic descent
Derived Forms
- ˈblue-ˈblooded, adjective
Other Words From
- blue-blooded adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of blue blood1
Word History and Origins
Origin of blue blood1
Example Sentences
From the start, we see him as he is: a despot and a swindler, a Dallas blue-blood with FBI ties, fleeing a violent past.
In Cold Mountain I did the blue-blood accent, and this one is totally different.
He may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
No other women with less blue blood could even attempt to get away with what she seems to in fact be getting away with.
Blood will run in the streets of the city when I get up, the brown blood, the black blood, the blue blood.
In every drop of the blue blood of St. Louis there is a bubble of sporting blood.
With Mrs. Garnett, one must have either plenty of very blue blood or more than plenty of very yellow gold.
Oh what a pity one cannot sell one's quality for daily bread, or trade off one's blue blood for black coffee.
His blue blood carries him through life with glory and straight to heaven when he dies.
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