blue-veinedadj.

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Biij^v These blew-veind violets whereon we leane. View more context for this quotation

1637 T. Heywood Pleasant Dialogues & Dramma's 160 The blew vein'd Nereæ, And green hair'd Dorides with all their brats.

1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xlix. 212 We found three pedestals, of blue veined marble.

1828 S. T. Coleridge Christabel (rev. ed.) i, in Poet. Wks. II. 45 Her blue-veined feet unsandal'd were.

1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 349 Holding the book in a blue-veined hand.

1927 J. Joyce Flower given to Daughter in Pomes Penyeach Frail the white rose and frail are Her hands that gave... Rosefrail and fair..My blueveined child.

1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) vi. 70 Long bars of a cream-coloured, blue-veined, scrubbing soap known as ‘blue mottle’.

1992 Mother Jones May 62/1 He did look preternaturally young and wan, his blue-veined eyelids translucent.

1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms at Fenny In Hampshire when cheese is beginning to decay, and just showing those blue lines, it is said to be blue-vinnied, that is, I presume ‘blue veined’.]

1898 Land Mag. Nov. 593 Candidates..had to make one hard-pressed cheese, one blue-veined cheese, one fancy cheese, and also to make butter.

1957 Life 7 Oct. 172/2 This..cheese is America's version of the famous blue veined cheeses made in a number of European countries.

1980 Times 27 Oct. 15/8 The blue-veined Cheshire which is now a fashionable alternative to Stilton.

2007 D. Olson et al. Europe for Dummies (ed. 4) xiii. 230 French cheese is justifiably famous, with brie and Camembert and blue-veined Roquefort topping the list.