Crossword clues for bluenose
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluenose \Blue"nose`\, n. A nickname for a Nova Scotian; also, a Nova Scotian ship (called also
Wiktionary
n. 1 A prude 2 (context slang English) A person from Nova Scotia, Canada. 3 (context slang English) A variety of potato from Nova Scotia, Canada. 4 (context slang English) A follower of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everton%20Football%20Club 5 (context slang English) A follower of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20City%20Football%20Club
Wikipedia
Bluenose or Blue nose may refer to:
- Bluenose, a Canadian racing fishing schooner built in 1921
- Bluenose II, replica of the original fishing schooner, built in 1963
- MV Bluenose, a CN Marine ferry built in 1955 and scrapped in 2000
- Flying Bluenose, a Dominion Atlantic Railway train from 1891 to 1936
- Bluenose (postage stamp), a 1929 postage stamp issued in Canada
- Blue Nose, a type of American Pit Bull Terrier known for its blue coat
- Bluenose, one of the minor tugboat characters in TUGS
- Antarctic butterfish, bluenose sea bass, bluenose, or bluenose warehou, a fish from the Southern Ocean
- Bluenose cod, an Australian freshwater fish
- The Blue Noses Group, Russian artists group
- Bluenose, a Rangers F.C. fan
- Bluenose, a Birmingham City F.C. fan
- Bluenose, or Bluenoser, a nickname for a person from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia
- Bluenose, American slang expression for a member of the Church of Scotland, recorded since 1698 (Historical Dictionary of American Slang)
- Bluenose, American slang expression from 19th century onward for someone excessively prudish
- Blue Nose, a Line-crossing ceremony for a sailors who cross the Arctic Circle on board a vessel
The Bluenose is the nickname for a 50-cent definitive postage stamp issued by the Canadian Post Office on 8 January 1929 as part of the King George V "Scroll Issue”. Scott number is 158 with a perforation of 12. The stamp depicts the fishing schooner Bluenose and the design, by the Canadian Bank Note Company, Ottawa, is a montage of two different images of the vessel, racing off Halifax Harbour. The stamp is considered a classic even though it was issued after 1900. It has been called "Canada's Finest Stamp" and is a favorite among collectors.
Three printing plates were made; plate 1 (of 200 impressions) was never used because of defects found, but plates 2 and 3 (of 100 impressions) were used to print 1,044,900 copies of the stamp. The photographs for the engraved stamp were taken by W.R. MacAskill in 1922 and the vignette was engraved by the American Bank Note Company, New York.
In 2001 a Bluenose first day cover sold for CAN $3,650.
Stamps issued in 1982 and 1999 show all, or part, of the original Bluenose stamp in their designs. The 1982 stamp is a stamp-on-stamp design while the 1998 issue was in commemoration of the naval designer William James Roué of the original schooner.
Usage examples of "bluenose".
In this way Bluenose gets led on to offer himself as a lovier, afore he knows where he bees.
How is it that an American can sell his wares, at whatever price he pleases, where a Bluenose would fail to make a sale at all?
Her mind drifted to the bluenose season when spots of violet covered the hills above the Njarae, thriving in the windy spray of sea.
When Tom and Royenne began muttering to each other and pointing at the forward port monitor at a glimpse of the Canadian entry Bluenose IV, Kirk took their distraction as an opportunity.
He refitted it, changed the name to the Bluenose Lounge, and attracted all the Rangers fans in the town.
Kingsley-Schultz was saw at bluenose meetings in Oregon State College and later at Florida University.
I wish the Bluenoses would find as good an excuse in their rumps for running backwards as he has.
He was evidently annoyed, and with his usual dexterity gave vent to his feelings by a sally upon the Bluenoses, who he says are a cross of English and Yankee, and therefore first cousins to us both.
I tell you, to hear the Bluenoses, when they get together, talk politics.
Now, we deal in black niggers only, but the Bluenoses sell their own species--they trade in white slaves.
That set people all over the world scratching in their own back yards, the Bluenoses with the rest.
Well, the Bluenoses have nothin' else to do half the time but sun themselves.
Bluenoses have caught this disease, as folks do the Scotch fiddle, by shakin' hands along with the British.