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Definition of True-blue
1. Adjective. Marked by unswerving loyalty. "A reliable true-blue country club conservative"
Definition of True-blue
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of true blue) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of True-blue
Literary usage of True-blue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Waterloo the Prussians were immensely popular, and in connection with the Loyal
True Blue Club gave rise to the toasts, "The True Blue ' and the "PRUSSIAN ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"Why "true blue?" Here ÌB the answer. The following lines are by the Rev.
John Eagles, author of The Sketcher, and were first published, many years since, ..."
3. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"151 IK-. Tho Sikhs wear blue, even bluo turbans ; but all other Hindus reckon
bluo unlucky. Blue (True). True Blue principles, ie Toryism ; but in ..."
4. A Manual of Historical Literature: Comprising Brief Descriptions of the Most by Charles Kendall Adams (1882)
"The True Blue Laws of Connecticut and New IL.ven, and the False Blue Laws Forged
by Peters; to which are ad led Specimens of the Laws and Judicial ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty by Great Britain High Court of Admiralty (1848)
"THE TRUE BLUE. ROBERTS. was also a question respecting an alleged matter of a
ves- agreement in a case of salvage, under the cir- the salvors V cumstances ..."
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