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pure merinonoun Australian / NZ historical1An early immigrant to Australia who had no convict origins: pure merinos might boycott balls if the children of convicts were among the guests...- The government printer censored the text, deleting, among other passages, a paragraph on the pure merinos.
- Pure merinos prided themselves on having no 'taint' of convict blood.
- The good guy, as described at one point in the film, is pure merino.
1.1A member of a prominent family in Australian society: only the pure merinos were fit to serve the troops...- The term pure merino became a metaphor for colonial aristocracy.
- He moved in circles in which he met only those young men who had benefited from their upbringing and were in effect accepted as pure merinos once removed.
- The pure merinos pride themselves on being of the purest blood in the colony.
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