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Blue blood" is an English idiomatic phrase for "noble birth." The term is an English borrowing of the Spanish phrase, sangre azul, ("blue blood"). Spanish nobility used sangre azul to differentiate between classes of nobility descended from the Moors and those descended from the Visigoths

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