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Definition of Blue flag
1. Noun. A common iris of the eastern United States having blue or blue-violet flowers; root formerly used medicinally.
Definition of Blue flag
1. Noun. A quality award given to European beaches, based on cleanliness and water quality. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Flag
Literary usage of Blue flag
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE BONNIE blue flag. WE are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, ...
Hurrah! hurrah 1 for the bonnie blue flag That bears a single star. ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"THE BONNIE blue flag By HARRY McCARTHY [Like "Dixie," this famous song? originated in
the ... Hurrah for the Bonnie blue flag that bears a Single Star! ..."
3. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"Come rally round the Bonnie blue flag That bears a single star! We've borne the
Yankee trickery, The Yankee gibe and sneer, Till Yankee insolence and pride ..."
4. Flags of the World by Byron McCandless, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1917)
"When a consul goes aboard a vessel of the navy on official business, a blue flag
with a centered letter “C” inclosed imm a circle of thir,AS ..."
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