"Why is a young hotblood like yourself, sir, not engaged among the king's progress?"

The Hotblood whose life had been spared ran away.

And when an unwary Hotblood came poking her nose out of the ground, Aglu and his friends prepared to attack her.

For Hotblood should not kill Hotblood.

With a hotblood like this one, here," he said, nodding at Brian, "we can be sure there will be enough action sooner or later to keep us busy."

Though modern warmbloods are descended from heavier agricultural types systematically upgraded by hotblood influence, the term does not imply that warmbloods are direct crosses of "cold" and "hot".

Act I saw Mr. Liepa as a carousing hotblood, courtly in balletic flourishes with Hilary Ryan's Rosaline but taunting toward the Capulets.