Blue-blooded means inbread.
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months agoI 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.
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Would this not be the other way around? Blue veins show through the skin?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Yeah, I wrote that poorly.