BLUE DAHLIA BLUE ROSEと同じ BLUE NOTE(S) ブルースの旋法 (半音低い音が二つある) BLUE POINT 米国東部ロングアイランド岬特産の牡蠣
BLUE BLOOD 貴族出身の 名門出身の (スペインで、多分,レ・コンキスタの時代に?カスティーリャ地方の古い家系を誇る人びとが、皮膚の黒い征服者・ムーア人の血が混じっていない証拠として、蒼い静脈が透けて見えるほどに色白の皮膚を誇ってそういった事から派生した言葉。 スパイン語で SANGRE AZUL の英語訳。 フランス語でもサン・ブルーと言う。
★ BLUE BLOOD From Jennifer Bunner in the USA: “I was wondering about the origin of the phrase blue blood.” Unlike so many other expressions, this one is well documented. It’s a direct translation of the Spanish sangre azul. Many of the oldest and proudest families of Castile used to boast that they were pure bred, having no link with the Moors who had for so long controlled the country, or indeed any other group. As a mark of this, they pointed to their veins, which seemed bluer in colour than those of such foreigners. This was simply because the blue-tinted venous blood showed up more prominently in their lighter skin, but they took it to be a mark of their pure breeding. So the phrase blue blood came to refer to the blood which flowed in the veins of the oldest and most aristocratic families. The phrase was taken over into English in the 1830s.