Definition of "blue-blood" [blue-blood]

• Alternative spelling of blue blood. (noun)

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• "Twentieth-century blue-blood decorator Sister Parish, America's version of Ms. Castaing, was asked once why she had put a worthless giltwood curtain finial atop a lovely antique clock in her entrance hall."
• "Like polo or lacrosse, it's played by a small social elite, with a blue-blood appeal limited to alumni from the handful of institutions which have courts—places like Oxford, Cambridge or Eton College, the famous boarding school where British royals are educated."
• "Her earliest victories in golf were challenged by the game's blue-blood masters, who resented a "carpenter's daughter" taking trophies away from women born to the manor."