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Bloody Mary   /blˈədi mˈɛri/   Listen
Bloody Mary

noun
1.
Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558).  Synonyms: Mary I, Mary Tudor.
2.
A cocktail made with vodka and spicy tomato juice.






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"Bloody Mary" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sacred symbol of a reconciliation even more pathetic and more strange. Elizabeth lies—seemingly by her own desire—in the same vault as her own sister, Mary Tudor. 'Bloody Mary,' now, no more. James the First, who had no love for either of them, has placed at the head of the monument 'two lines,' as has been well said, 'full of a far deeper feeling than we should naturally have ...
— Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 • Charles Kingsley

... thought that "Bloody Mary" "had been harshly judged by the verdict of popular tradition." So have most characters to whom popular dislike affixes the popular epithet—"Bloody Claverse," "Bloody Mackenzie," "Bloody Balfour." Mary had the courage of the Tudors. She "edified all around her by her cheerfulness, ...
— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Bloody Mary" :   cocktail, Mary Tudor, Queen of England, Virgin Mary, House of Tudor, Tudor, vodka, bloody shame



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