blue-blood

See also: blueblood and blue blood

English

Noun

blue-blood (plural blue-bloods)

  1. Alternative spelling of blue blood.
    • 1907, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hearts and Crosses”, in Heart of the West, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., →OCLC, page 15:
      For several years the Nopalito had been making experiments with an English breed of cattle that looked down with aristocratic contempt upon the Texas long-horns. The experiments were found satisfactory; and a pasture had been set aside for the blue-bloods.
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