blood feud
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[edit]Noun
[edit]blood feud (plural blood feuds)
- A protracted and bitter violent feud between clans, families, factions, etc.; a vendetta.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "I should have remembered that these people have long memories for blood-feuds, and have been more upon my guard."
Translations
[edit]feud between clans or families — see vendetta