英和和英

語源

blue blood +‎ -ed

形容詞

blue-blooded (comparative more blue-blooded, superlative most blue-blooded)

1. Aristocratic or patrician.
   • 1887, Katherine Prescott Wormeley, transl., The Two Brothers‎, translation of La Rabouilleuse by Honoré de Balzac:

     Fario was a withered little man, as ugly as though he were a blue-blooded grandee.

   • [1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “A Second-rate Woman”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 73:

     But, as I was saying, we listened and heard The Dowd drawl worse than ever. She drops her final g’s like a barmaid or a blue-blooded Aide-de-Camp.

   • 1908, Upton Sinclair, chapter XII, in The Metropolis‎:

     The Major was the very type of a blue-blooded old aristocrat; he was all noblesse oblige to those within the magic circle of his intimacy—but alas for those outside it!

   • 1965, Ervin Drake, “It Was a Very Good Year”, performed by Frank Sinatra:

     When I was thirty-five / It was a very good year / It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls / Of independent means / We'd ride in limousines

派生語

• blue-bloodedness

関連する語

• blue blood

参考

• red-blooded