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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 8 months ago

I 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.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

whose skin showed through the blue color of the veins

Would this not be the other way around? Blue veins show through the skin?

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I wrote that poorly.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Blue-blooded means inbread.

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