blue blood
noun
an aristocrat, noble, or member of a socially prominent family.
blue-blooded
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a word derived from
blue blood.
Example Sentences
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Brooks Brothers isn’t reposting its photos or promoting its association with him, a spokesman said—though JFK Jr. was a longtime customer of the blue-blooded brand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
The remaining ones then hold a by-election to bring another blue-blooded peer back.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024
The book’s heroine, Irene Woodward, a blue-blooded New Yorker fleeing a soured engagement, stands in for Urrea’s mom, who came from a similar background.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
Now, each network controls a 16-team, blue-blooded super-league.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
From bacteria to elephants—from red-eyed flies to blue-blooded princes—biological information flowed through living systems in a systematic, archetypal manner: DNA provided instructions to build RNA.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
