Loyal or faithful; staunch.
[From the adoption of the color blue by 17th-century Scottish Presbyterians in opposition to the Royalists' red.]
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true-blue (trū'blū') |
Loyal or faithful; staunch.
[From the adoption of the color blue by 17th-century Scottish Presbyterians in opposition to the Royalists' red.]
| Idioms: true blue |
Loyal, faithful, as in You can count on her support; she's true blue. This expression alludes to the idea of blue being the color of constancy, but the exact allusion is disputed. One theory holds it alludes to the unchanging blue sky, another to the fastness of a blue dye that will not run. Blue has been the identifying color of various factions in history. In the mid-1600s the Scottish Covenanters, who pledged to uphold Presbyterianism, were called
true blue (as opposed to red, the color of the royalists). In the 1800s the same term came to mean "staunchly Tory," and in America, "politically sound."
| WordNet: true-blue |
The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
marked by unswerving loyalty
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