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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
blue-plate
 
PRONUNCIATION:blplt
ADJECTIVE: Being a main course of a restaurant meal usually offered at a special price: a blue-plate lunch.
ETYMOLOGY:Perhaps from the blue-patterned plate on which such meals were originally served.
 
 
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  blue pike bluepoint  
 
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