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I was taught it was because nobility were the only pale Spaniards in the middle ages, so they were the only people whose skin showed through the blue color of the veins. So they claimed their blue blood showed their divine right to royalty.

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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

whose skin showed through the blue color of the veins

Would this not be the other way around? Blue veins show through the skin?

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- Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, I wrote that poorly.
  
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Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Blue-blooded means inbread.

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