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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