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Definition of Blueblood
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blueblood
Literary usage of Blueblood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lodge Goat: Goat Rides, Butts and Goat Hairs. Gathered from the Lodge by James Pettibone (1902)
"I hate Sister blueblood, so I do! Sister Gossip. And so do I. She's too airy to
suit me. Sister Backbite. I despise her. (Looks, L. I E.) Why here comes ..."
2. Experience: A Morality Play of Today by George Vere Hobart (1915)
"(To EXPERIENCE—ingenuously.) Isn't she great? PLEASURE (to YOUTH) And this, my
dear Youth, is my friend, blueblood. YOUTH Pleased to know you. blueblood ..."
3. Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Timothy Thomas Fortune (1884)
"... and he will remain an English blueblood in every thought and action, which
cannot fail to bring about in free America and on his own acres here the same ..."
4. American Pauperism and the Abolition of Poverty by Isador Ladoff, J. Felix (1904)
"Heredity, blueblood, was esteemed higher than material wealth. A trader or merchant
did not dare to dream about social equality with a nobleman. ..."
5. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"This legacy may have left young Henri de Blainville with the notion that the
world owed him something; in any case, he was a textbook example of a blueblood ..."
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