pur sang

Examples of pur sang in a sentence

• 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.1868, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Modern women and what is said of them: Reprint of a series of articles in the Saturday review, J.S. Redfield:
• Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang.1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘We Frolic while ’Tis May’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers...
• 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.1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “The Famous Ballad of the Jubilee Cup”, in From a Cornish Window:

Origin of pur sang

From French pur-sang (“pure blood or thoroughbred (as used of a horse)”), from pur (“pure”) and sang (“blood”).

Questions about pur sang

What does pur sang mean?

Pur sang means beyond doubt or being a model example; the ne plus ultra or epitome; the definitive.

How do you use pur sang in a sentence?

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.

What part of speech is pur sang?

Pur sang is an adjective.