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Meanings of pure-blooded in English

Having pure blood, unmixed ancestry.

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        Examples for "pureblooded"
        1
        How did he get his hands on four pureblooded children?
        Darkness unleashed
        2
        Here was a pureblooded American by all the accepted canons.
        Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
        3
        I turned to my companion, M. Martini, a pureblooded Southerner.
        Original Short Stories — Volume 01
        4
        Not the actions of the coldhearted but of proud and pureblooded Kallans in the ancient stories.
        Immortal wolf
        5
        If he were pureblooded and better suited for Emily, the Burkes could not have used his blood.
        Immortal wolf
        Usage of pure-blooded in English
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        It was a volume on the breeding and care of pure-blooded horses.
        Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
        2
        They even look down on pure-blooded Thais if they have dark skin.
        Bangkok 8
        3
        He also found that Koa was one of the seventeen pure-blooded Hawaiians left.
        Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
        4
        I have a Black, and two pure-blooded Indians, while the rest are Creoles.
        In New Granada; Or, Heroes and Patriots
        5
        All four were of deep bronze complexion, and to all appearance pure-blooded aboriginals.
        The Lone Ranche
        6
        Bowser was not a pure-blooded hound; he was fat and he was faultily trained.
        Through Forest and Fire / Wild-Woods Series No. 1
        7
        Her profile showed the exquisite aquiline of the pure-blooded Egyptian.
        The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
        8
        But historically-inclined foodies may have better luck finding pure-blooded descendants of the Aztec birds.
        Wired
        9
        My father was half Indian and hers was pure-blooded Indian.
        Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
        10
        He danced so well that I seemed to see before me a pure-blooded Sicilian.
        The Call of the Blood
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        Huerta himself proudly says that he is a pure-blooded Aztec.
        The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Da...
        12
        These were real princes-notTartar-Georgians ,butpure-blooded descendants of Rurik.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
        13
        When will you stop pretending that there's some pure-blooded witch ideal in the world?
        The Book of Life
        14
        But no pure-blooded sidhe has ever had pointed ears.
        A kiss of shadows
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        There I was, pure-blooded Japanese, and he knew more about my country's history than I did.
        All You Need Is Kill
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        Now Juarez is a pure-blooded and full-blooded Indian.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 / A Magazin...
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        Pure-blooded through the time