Synonyms for blue blood

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bloo bluhd for 1; bloo bluhd for 2

Phonetic Transcription : ˈblu ˌblʌd for 1; ˈblu ˈblʌd for 2

Définition of blue blood

Origin : 1834, translating Spanish sangre azul, claimed by certain families of Castile as uncontaminated by Moorish or Jewish admixture, probably from the notion of the visible veins of people of fair complexion.

noun noble descent

Example sentences :

We felt that there must be many degrees of blue blood in his veins.
Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.

I am not the less your child because of the blue blood, for she cannot love you better than I do.
Extract from : « The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals » by Ann S. Stephens

It appears that we have blue blood too, Sylvia, and we must behave more like aristocrats.
Extract from : « Michael » by E. F. Benson

Blue blood is getting thin and poor, and only money can thicken it.
Extract from : « The Sorrows of Satan » by Marie Corelli

For all its blue blood, however, the family were what is known as land poor.
Extract from : « Lafayette, We Come! » by Rupert S. Holland

Nothing, however, in an Irishman’s estimation, can replace ‘blue blood.
Extract from : « The Banshee » by Elliot O'Donnell

You can't drain the blue blood out of a person even with a pump!
Extract from : « Mother » by Maksim Gorky

Oh, sometimes I think I must have blue blood in my veins, too.
Extract from : « Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays » by Various

It is a knowledge which the possession of the blue blood itself produces.
Extract from : « The Duke's Children » by Anthony Trollope

I've got blue blood to burn, but no yellow gold, as you know.
Extract from : « At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins » by Nell Speed

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