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Purple
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- 1 Of a purple hue.
"So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams."
- 2 Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. US
"purple state"
- 3 Mixed between social democrats and liberals. Belgium, Netherlands
- 4 Imperial; regal.
"Grovel on the earth: aye, hide / In the dust thy purple pride!"
- 5 Blood-red; bloody.
"O may ſuch purple teares be alway ſhed"
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- 6 Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
"Near-synonyms: flowery, overwrought"
- 7 Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
- 1 of a color intermediate between red and blue wordnet
- 2 belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler wordnet
- 3 excessively elaborate or showily expressed wordnet
- 1 A surname from Middle English. rare
- 1 A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta. countable, uncountable
"Arraying with reflected Purple and Gold / The Clouds that on his Weſtern Throne attend."
- 2 (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes wordnet
- 3 Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. countable, uncountable
- 4 a color between red and blue wordnet
- 5 Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. countable, uncountable
"to put on the imperial purple"
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- 6 (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status wordnet
- 7 Imperial power. broadly, countable, uncountable
"1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire He was born in the purple."
- 8 Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. countable, uncountable
- 9 The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. countable, uncountable
""Sure, some purple Owlsley.""
- 10 Purpura. countable, uncountable
- 11 Earcockle, a disease of wheat. countable, uncountable
- 12 Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). countable, uncountable
"the banded purple"
- 13 A cardinalate. countable, uncountable
- 14 Ellipsis of purple drank. US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang, uncountable
"Fishtailing out the parking lot leaving Magic / Sipping on the purple and the yellow, drinking magic"
- 15 Synonym of snakebite and black. UK, countable, slang, uncountable
- 1 To turn purple in colour. intransitive
"[T]he Capri cliffs, the tops of which were still pink against the purpling sky."
- 2 color purple wordnet
- 3 To dye purple. transitive
"Year after year unto her feet, / She lying on her couch alone, / Across the purpled coverlet, / The maiden's jet-black hair has grown, […]"
- 4 become purple wordnet
- 5 To clothe in purple. transitive
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- 6 To pursue the opposite gender in inappropriate circumstances, usually of adolescents. (From the metaphor of mixing blue [boys] and pink [girls].) US, intransitive, slang
Etymology
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure. The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure. The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure. The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.
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