Blue blood \Blue blood\ (bl[=u]"bl[u^]d`), n.
1. a member of the nobility or aristocracy, or a person of
high social status.
[1913 Webster]
2. the quality of status that qualifies one as a blue
blood; -- used metaphorically, as "They have blue blood
in their veins.".
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blue-blooded \blue-blooded\ adj.
of aristocratic birth and refined upbringing.
Syn: aristocratic, coroneted, gentle, highborn, patrician,
titled, wellborn, upper-class.
[WordNet 1.5] Blue bonnet
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blue-blooded
adj : belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or
aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic
Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue
family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy";
"of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the
American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic
features"; "patrician tastes" [syn: aristocratic, aristocratical,
blue, gentle, patrician]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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