What is "blueblood"

Usage examples of "blueblood".

Witness to the previous night at dinner, Sean Michael had done all but ravish his blueblood date between the salad and the main course.

I mean, you're bound to feel a bit brainy and blueblooded, a bit of an exquisite, when you walk through Forty-Second Street or Union Square, or even Sixth Avenue at noon, the office men, with lunchbox faces and truant eyes.

Prince Goffredo was seated prudently apart from the other feasters at a table peopled by his playmates, little boys all as boisterous and unbiddable as they were blueblooded, but on seeing his mother's anguish he too ran over to embrace her and ask her why she cried.

From the captain's expression, Spock could tell that the blueblooded commander of this Enterprise thoroughly understood the ramifications of secured space, and when a starship could and could not be of service.

To Guillam, Haydon was of that unrepeatable, fading Circus generation, to which his parents and George Smiley also belonged - exclusive and in Haydon's case blueblooded - which had lived a dozen leisured lives to his own hasty one, and still, thirty years later, gave the Circus its dying flavour of adventure.

On estates on either side of the property, hidden but not ignored by Stevie and her husband, lived the bluebloods into whose lifestyle they had decided to climb.

That was a cruel enough revelation, but what hurt her even more was that she was so far removed from society life that she had not understood what it would take for her to be accepted by the bluebloods of America.

Not for nothing did false King Geoffrey and the rest of the northern bluebloods sneer at King Avram's backers as a rabble of shopkeepers in arms.

The bastard was arrogant, old as dirt itself, and wealthy as shit… plus he held disdain to an art form that only true bluebloods could dispense.

Them bluebloods, with their crazy lineages, had us start a war without ownin' a single cannon factory.

In fact, many of Long Island's bluebloods had shaken their heads when Young Ragsdale took up cock-fighting.

I'm ghosting a concerto for one of their bluebloods who wants to impress his family.

Fiftyish, graying, criolla blueblood by descent, mixed with Irish from a line of silver-mine magnates: that much he knew from the briefing papers.

The remaining walls were decorated with a watered ivory silk and paintings of some of his wife's ancestors: a grim, dyspeptic-looking crowd of Yankee bluebloods, looking as if they were sniffing in disapproval of the scents of Kauna coffee and jasmine tea and sacher-torte wafting toward them.

The remaining walls were decorated with a watered ivory silk and paintings of some of his wife's ancestors: a grim, dyspeptic-looking crowd of Yankee bluebloods, looking as if they were sniffing in disapproval of the scents of Kona coffee and jasmine tea and sacher-torte wafting toward them.