Blue-blooded
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Aristocratic or patrician.
"Fario was a withered little man, as ugly as though he were a blue-blooded grandee."
Adjective
- 1 belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy wordnet
Example
More examples"He, too, had said, in vibrating tones, that he loved her. He had begged her to give him a chance; implored that she would let him try to be worthy. As if, poor fellow, he ever could come up to her standard! What girl of her breeding would think of him twice when there were blue-blooded, perfectly-groomed Greek gods like Tony Severance on earth?"
Etymology
blue blood + -ed
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