Meaning of pur sang | Babel Free

Definitions

Beyond doubt or being a model example; the ne plus ultra or epitome; the definitive.

not-comparable, postpositional

Equivalents

Examples

“the Art Deco painter pur sang”

“The Duke of Punch is too true an Aristocrat, pur sang, to be afraid of avowing his liking for anything […]”

“For it is only the old-fashioned sort⟳, not girls of the period pur sang, that marry⟳ for love⟳, or put⟳ the husband before the banker.”

“Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang. First, an irrepressible wrinkle or two in the waist of his frock-coat—denoting that he had not damned his tailor sufficiently to drive⟳ that tradesman up to the orthodox high pressure of cunning workmanship.”

“But she had the grand reach⟳ forward⟳! I never saw⟳ such a line! / Smooth-bored, clean-run, from her fiddle head with its dainty ear half-cock, / Hard-bit, pur sang, from her overhang to the heel of her off hind sock.”

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