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Sang Bleu

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Of high aristocratic descent. The words are French, and mean blue blood, but the notion is Spanish. The old families of Spain who trace their pedigree beyond the time of the Moorish conquest say that their venous blood is blue, but that of common people is black.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Sandalphon
Sandalwood
Sandbanks
Sandemanians or Glassites
Sanden [sandy-den]
Sandford and Merton
Sandjar
Sandschaki or Sandschaki-sherif [the standard of green silk]
Sandwich
Sandwichman (A)
Sang Bleu
Sang Froid (French, “cool blood”)
Sangaree
Sanglamore
Sanglier (Sir)
Sangrado (Dr.)
Sangreal
Sanguine [murrey]
Sanguinary James (A)
Sanhedrim
Sanjaksherif