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• s  belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
  the blue-blooded aristocracy

• Some Republican strategists even believe that the race will turn into a "cultural civil war," pitting the blue-blooded Bush, 61, a preppie Yalie, against the red-blooded Kemp, 49 .
• It is a country gentleman's life-style, which befits a blue-blooded Virginian who counts two Presidents, William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, in the family tree.
• He became a charter member of two jockey clubs, an amateur walking champion, a dead shot, a member of Manhattan's blue-blooded Old Seventh Regiment.

• aristocratic
• aristocratical
• blue
• gentle
• patrician

News & Articles

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• It Happened One Weekend: Upper East Siders Swarm Downtown; Man Seeks Midtown Rental
  1) Rich people. What are they spending millions of dollars on? What are they complaining about? This is What's Up With Rich People? In a scheme worthy of Jacob Riis himself, certain segments of the blue-blooded, urban haute bourgeoisie...
  July 6, 2013 - Curbed New York

Quotes

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• David Cameron in Independent
  For example, Cameron said in an interview: "The papers keep writing that [my wife, Samantha] comes from a very blue-blooded background", but "she is actually very unconventional. She went to a day school."
• Jon Bon Jovi in The Delaware County Times
  There's eight digits in this, absolutely,Bon Jovi said. "And that'sa lot of tours. I don't want to hear about tax write-offs. This is my hard-earned dollars. I'm not a blue-blooded, silver spoon-fed kid. Every nickel I made, I made myself....
• Christopher Meyer in Independent
  But Sir Christopher said: "To put it mildly, I had some good contacts in Washington, and went to all those, and nobody suggested that it was something wrong. If anything, they said it was a bit old-fashioned, blue-blooded, conservative, and needed...