Meaning & use
blue blood
A member of a noble or aristocratic family, or the aristocratic lineage itself.
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The gala was filled with old-money blue bloods dressed in their finest gowns.
Despite her blue-blood background, she preferred a simple life on the family farm.
A note on using this word
Blue blood originally referred to the visible veins of pale-skinned Spanish nobility, taken as proof of unmixed ancestry.
Words with a similar meaning
aristocratnoble
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Words with an opposite meaning
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