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True-blue   /tru-blu/   Listen
True-blue

adjective
1.
Marked by unswerving loyalty.  "A reliable true-blue country club conservative"






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"True-blue" Quotes from Famous Books



... York city limits, where a few stems were thrown out one spring about five years ago, the entire bank is now covered with the vine, that has rooted by its hairy joints, and, in spite of frosts and blizzards, continues to bear its true-blue flowers throughout the summer. ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

... came this fearsome threat From true-blue Tory throats: "With muzzles if our dogs you fret, You shall ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 • Various

... church-breaker and a murderer. The present Dumfriezers remember and justify the deed, observing it was only a papist church—in evidence whereof, its walls have been so completely demolished that no vestiges of them remain. They are a sturdy set of true-blue Presbyterians, these burghers of Dumfries; men after your father's own heart, zealous for the Protestant succession—the rather that many of the great families around are suspected to be of a different ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott



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