LEXINGTON, Ky. — You’ve probably read the story line. Saturday’s Final Four is full of basketball blue bloods. Duke and North Carolina meet in one national semifinal. Kansas plays Villanova in the other. Blue bloods all.
But just what exactly is a blue blood? The Oxford American Dictionary defines it as “a person of aristocratic birth.” The American Heritage Dictionary describes it as “1. noble or aristocratic descent. 2. A member of the aristocracy or other high social group.”
Its origin believes to have come from the “blue color of the veins of fair-complexioned aristocrats,” according to American Heritage.
