Found 3 hits - Term: blue-blooded, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blue blood \blue blood\ bl=u"blu^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.".
-- blue"-blood`ed, adj.
pjc
see also:
blue blood blue"-blood`ed
- [2] : 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
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
aristocratic aristocratical blue gentle patrician
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