"pur sang" meaning in English

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          "text": "The Duke of Punch is too true an Aristocrat, pur sang, to be afraid of avowing his liking for anything […]",
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          "text": "For it is only the old-fashioned sort, not girls of the period pur sang, that marry for love, or put the husband before the banker.",
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          "ref": "1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘We Frolic while ’Tis May’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 20:",
          "text": "Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang. First, an irrepressible wrinkle or two in the waist of his frock-coat—denoting that he had not damned his tailor sufficiently to drive that tradesman up to the orthodox high pressure of cunning workmanship.",
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          "text": "But she had the grand reach forward! I never saw such a line! / Smooth-bored, clean-run, from her fiddle head with its dainty ear half-cock, / Hard-bit, pur sang, from her overhang to the heel of her off hind sock.",
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