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‖ bleu, n. and a.|blø|
[Fr., see blue a.]
A. n.
1. Used in the names of various French cheeses with veins of blue mould; bleu cheese [part-tr. Fr. fromage bleu] = blue cheese (see blue a. 13).
1918U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 608 6 The names Pâté Bleu and Fromage Bleu are applied to several kinds of hard, rennet cheese made from cows' milk in imitation of Roquefort cheese. Ibid., Several more or less distinct kinds..designated Bleu d'Auvergne, Cantal..and St. Flour. 1952W. Plomer Museum Pieces xiv. 117 His favourite cheese—bleu d'Auvergne. 1957O. Nash You can't get there from Here 86 Every time the menu lists bleu cheese I want to order fromage blue.
2. Canad. Pol. (Also with capital initial.) A Quebec Conservative or ‘Blue’ (blue n. 8).
1885Weekly Manitoba Liberal 25 Dec. 4/4 The Mail is frantic over the defection of the rank and file of the Bleus in Quebec. 1946A. R. M. Lower Colony to Nation 302 Among the French, the word ‘Bleu’ did not necessarily mean ‘Conservative’. 1963Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Mar. 7/7 The real tug of war no longer is between the rouges and the bleus—the Liberals and the Tories—but between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ parties. 1966Economist 11 June 1178/1 The diehard bleus whose instinct is to pull the province [sc. Quebec] back into antique isolation. 1978Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Oct. 8/7 ‘Joe Clark is not exactly my man, but we have to take whatever they give us’ said Paul Paris, a lifetime ‘bleu’.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the conservative party in Quebec or its policies. Cf. sense 2 of the n.
[1876in R. M. Hamilton Canad. Quotations (1965) 68/1 It is not for me, mes enfants, to tell you for which party you should vote, but I would have you remember that the place on high..is bleu, while the other..is rouge.] 1900Canad. Mag. Sept. 548/2 There are strong Conservatives who would place the maximum Bleu victories at fifteen. 1963Kingston (Ont.) Whig-Standard 9 Mar. 13/3 In the rural ridings..the very low income segment of the population tends to be more bleu than rouge. |