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blue-blooded

blue-blooded \blue-blooded\ adj. of aristocratic birth and refined upbringing.

Syn: aristocratic, coroneted, gentle, highborn, patrician, titled, wellborn, upper-class.

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blue-blooded

a. aristocratic or patrician

WordNet
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]

Usage examples of "blue-blooded".

The two scrub cows that came with the place I sold to the butcher for thirty dollars each, paying two hundred and fifty for two blue-blooded Jersey heifers .

His features were blue-blooded, and rightly so - given the presence of two marquises and a duke several branches up and over in his family tree.