Blue blood
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Blue blood is an expression from the Spanish phrase "sangre azul", indicating nobility or noble descent.
This is said to derive from the fact that the native Spanish had fairer skin, which displays veins more prominently, than people of Arab origin. After the Moorish occupation of Spain, intermarriage occurred. The result seems to have been that the aristocracy, particularly certain families in Castille, who would not mix with the Moors, showed rather bluer blood vessels (in, for example, the back of the hand) than the ordinary folk.
Blue blood may also refer to:
In music
- Blue Blood (album), an album by X Japan
- "Blue Blood" (song), a single by Atrocity
- Blueblood, an album by Silkworm
In literature
- Blue Blood, novels by:
- Blue Blood, a play by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Other
- Blue Blood (film), a film directed by Stevan Riley
- Blue Blood Denim, a Dutch brand of luxury jeans
- the oxygenated form of blood containing hemocyanin, found in most molluscs and some arthropods, which is dark blue in appearance
- Employees of KPMG regard themselves as blue blood due to the company's blue theme
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