Blue blood

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Blue blood may relate to:

• "Blue blooded": Not only a member of wealthy family, but a member of an established one (old moneyed)
• Hemocyanin: a blood protein in many mollusks and the arthropod horseshoe crab, whose oxygenated form is blue.
• Nobility: in the English, Spanish, French and Dutch language, blue blood is used to denote noble birth.

Blue blood also appears in the titles and trademarks:

• Blue Blood (album): an album by X Japan;
• Blue Blood (single): a single by Atrocity
• Blue Blood, novels by:
• Craig Unger
• Edward Conlon
• Blue Bloods, a novel by Melissa de la Cruz
• Blue Blood (film): a film directed by Stevan Riley;
• Blue Blood (magazine): content producer, packager, and publisher which began as a magazine of counterculture erotica
• Blue Blood Denim: a Dutch brand of luxury jeans.

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