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- noun Alternative form of
blue blood .
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Examples
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Her chairmanship could strip the "blueblood" attitude from the leadership and help make the party more appealing to everyday, working Americans.
Gateway Pundit 2010
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But Monday night will linger as a championship fight between a blueblood and an upstart, neither willing to blink.
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Reuters Mike Krzyzewski Duke's Krzyzewski Nets Record 903rd Victory It was a matchup of blueblood programs that turned into a gala celebration honoring Mike Krzyzewski and his 903 career wins.
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This is from a new book by a then-19 year old White House intern:In the summer of 1962, Alford was a slender, golden-haired 19-year-old debutante whose finishing-school polish and blueblood connections had landed her a job in the White House press office.
US election live: Gingrich struggles before Minnesota, Colorado, Missouri votes 2012
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Simon Callow's fine Sir Toby is also a genuine rural blueblood whose highest praise for Maria is that "she is a beagle, true bred", yet who is also capable of insensate cruelty.
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In 1961, Mimi Alford, the latest crotch level inductee into the History Hall of Fame, was a "slender, golden-haired 19-year-old debutante whose finishing school polish and blueblood connections" landed her a summer job in the White House Press Office.
Myra Chanin: Mimi Alford's Hymen Sacrificed on the Altar of History Myra Chanin 2012
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He was named a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum in Davos and hobnobbed with Russian oligarchs, blueblood British bankers and esteemed academics.
Gadhafi's Son Leaves Elites' Cozy Embrace Guy Chazan 2011
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Conveniently perhaps ominously Selenas blueblood employers are nowhere to be found, and their estates jittery caretaker raises hackles.
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NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Claiborne Pell, the quirky blueblood who represented blue-collar Rhode Island in the U.S.
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Temple Drake, a blueblood Ole Miss sorority sister who we first met in about 1931 in the underrated Sanctuary, spends Sanctuary being cruelly sodomized and forced into prostitution.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 2010
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