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‖ pur sang|pyr sɑ̃|
[ad. F. pur-sang thoroughbred animal, f. pur pure, sang blood.]
Phr. used adjectivally (freq. following a n.) or adverbially to mean: of the full blood, without admixture, through-and-through, genuine.
1864G. A. Sala Quite Alone I. xii. 194 The Countess was a Frenchwoman, pur sang. 1868Sat. Rev. 14 Mar. 340/2 It is only the old-fashioned sort, not girls of the period pur sang, that marry for love. 1911J. Ward Realm of Ends xi. 225 To the speculative mind pur sang there is nothing satisfactory about such a view. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 192 Pur-sang exoticism of the fruity Oscar Wilde order is indeed extinct. 1941Mind L. 52 The subjective, pur sang, is that which is wholly dependent upon this or the other particular subject. 1947D. Mahon Studies in Seicento Art & Theory i. 16 Many of Guercino's late pictures appear far from classic pur sang even by comparison with some contemporary work. 1958Listener 24 July 133/3 A fusion of these two traditions, bearing in mind that they are not always found pur sang even at the beginning. 1961‘W. Haggard’ Arena xviii. 155 He wasn't a Lohmeyer but he was Lohmeyers pur sang. He'd despise a Sabin Scott. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Feb. 162/2 It is in fact possible to be a sociologist pur sang and not a black (white, yellow, piebald, Scots, Croat, Methodist, Muslim, etc, etc) sociologist. |