blue vein

noun

1. another name for blue cheese

Example Sentences

It was during this time she noticed a prominent blue vein on her right breast.

From BBC

Just like the lady, a vivid blue vein runs over his left eyebrow, like he’d brushed eye shadow way off course.

From Literature

Many in the crowd that day proclaimed themselves supporters of the police in the “Back the Blue” vein.

From New York Times

He brings Henry’s hand to his mouth and kisses the little knob of his knuckle, the skin over the blue vein there, bloodlines, pulses, the old blood kept in perpetuity within these walls, and he thinks, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, amen.

From Literature

On maps, it appears as a thick, muscular arm stretching into the Gulf of Mexico, with the Mississippi running, like a ropy blue vein, down the center.

From The New Yorker