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Blue Blood, novel by Edward Conlon (born 1965), New York police officer and author; Blue Blood, a play by Georgia Douglas Johnson; Blue Blood and Mutiny, a 2007 book about bank Morgan Stanley; Blue Bloods (novel series), a series of vampire novels by Melissa de la Cruz, and the first book in the series
Blue blood is an English idiom recorded since 1811 in the Annual Register [17] and in 1834 [18] for noble birth or descent; it is also known as a translation of the Spanish phrase sangre azul, which described the Spanish royal family and high nobility who claimed to be of Visigothic descent, [19] in contrast to the Moors. [20]
The term was invented in the New York Stock Exchange in 1923 or 1924, and comes from poker, where the highest value chips are blue. [101] Someone with blue blood is a member of the nobility. The term comes from the Spanish sangre azul, and is said to refer to the pale skin and prominent blue veins of Spanish nobles. [102]
Human blood in veins is not actually blue. Blood is red due to the presence of hemoglobin; deoxygenated blood (in veins) has a deep red color, and oxygenated blood (in arteries) has a light cherry-red color. Veins below the skin can appear blue or green due to subsurface scattering of light through the skin, and aspects of human color ...
A blue blood, in Johnson’s view, is more of a historic honor than a contemporaneous one, belonging to teams that dominated the sport when it was gaining a foothold in the nation’s ...
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The term is mostly used in the United States, though also in other countries such as the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and Canada to criticize news media creating one-sided depictions of police, uncritically repeating police narratives, or minimizing police misconduct.
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