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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



... up-side down on the mantel-shelf, and his majesty has remained in that undignified posture ever since. I have no disposition to come to his aid. My abhorrence of the wretch is as hearty as if he had not been dead and—otherwise provided for these last three hundred years. Bloody Mary of England was nearly as merciless, but she was sincere and uncompromising in her extirpation ...
— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... BLOODY MARY, queen Mary of England, daughter of Henry VIII. and elder half-sister of queen Elizabeth. So called on account of the sanguinary persecutions carried on by her government against the protestants. It is said that 200 persons were burned to death in ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.



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



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