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Blue Blood
/ˈbluˌblʌd/
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What does Blue Blood mean?
noun
- Noble or aristocratic ancestry.
- An aristocrat.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, blood.
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/ˈbluˌblʌd/
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Her blue blood, changed to black in every vein, Wanting the spring that those shrunk pipes had fed, Showed life imprisoned in a body dead.
When virtuous love is sought Thy power is naught, Though dating from the Flood, Blue blood!
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In her family the precedents of blue blood were religiously maintained with so much emphasis on the "blue" that no beginning was ever made in training her into a protective robustness.
Then will arise a true aristocracy, not of morbid, venous blue blood, but pulsating with the rich red blood of health.
During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.