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blue vein

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noun

  1. another name for blue cheese

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It was during this time she noticed a prominent blue vein on her right breast.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2022

On maps, it appears as a thick, muscular arm stretching into the Gulf of Mexico, with the Mississippi running, like a ropy blue vein, down the center.

From The New Yorker Mar. 25, 2019

After Long gave him back his scalpel at the pivotal moment, Carson severed the primary thin blue vein that connected the twins.

From Washington Post Nov. 13, 2015

Specifically, it's the liver spots on Sid's cueball forehead and the thick blue vein down the side of his temple.

From Time Magazine Archive

A painful-looking blue vein stretches down from her hairline to her eyelid.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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