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Blood

noun C2
  1. A member of the Los Angeles gang the Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.

Plural Bloods

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“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 20 · B2
“Father,” said Mercédès, stopping when she had reached the centre of the table, “sit, I pray you, on my right hand; on my left I will place him who has ever been as a brother to me,” pointing with a soft and gentle smile to Fernand; but her words and look seemed to inflict the direst torture on him, for his lips became ghastly pale, and even beneath the dark hue of his complexion the blood might be seen retreating as though some sudden pang drove it back to the heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 24 · C1
What weight can my blood add to the wool?
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 32 · B2
THE WEASELS and the Mice waged a perpetual war with each other, in which much blood was shed.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 38 · B2

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