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Meanings of pure-blooded in English

Having pure blood, unmixed ancestry.

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Examples for "pureblooded"
Examples for "pureblooded"
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How did he get his hands on four pureblooded children?
Darkness unleashed
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Here was a pureblooded American by all the accepted canons.
Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
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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
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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
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They even look down on pure-blooded Thais if they have dark skin.
Bangkok 8
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He also found that Koa was one of the seventeen pure-blooded Hawaiians left.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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I have a Black, and two pure-blooded Indians, while the rest are Creoles.
In New Granada; Or, Heroes and Patriots
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All four were of deep bronze complexion, and to all appearance pure-blooded aboriginals.
The Lone Ranche
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Bowser was not a pure-blooded hound; he was fat and he was faultily trained.
Through Forest and Fire / Wild-Woods Series No. 1
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Her profile showed the exquisite aquiline of the pure-blooded Egyptian.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
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But historically-inclined foodies may have better luck finding pure-blooded descendants of the Aztec birds.
Wired
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My father was half Indian and hers was pure-blooded Indian.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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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...
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These were real princes-notTartar-Georgians ,butpure-blooded descendants of Rurik.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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When will you stop pretending that there's some pure-blooded witch ideal in the world?
The Book of Life
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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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