purple
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pəl noun
1.
any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
2.
cloth or clothing of this hue, especially as formerly worn distinctively by persons of imperial, royal, or other high rank.
3.
the rank or office of a cardinal.
4.
the office of a bishop.
5.
imperial, regal, or princely rank or position.
adjective
8.
of the color purple.
9.
imperial, regal, or princely.
10.
brilliant or showy.
11.
full of exaggerated literary devices and effects; marked by excessively ornate rhetoric: a purple passage in a novel.
12.
profane or shocking, as language.
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Purple
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verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
Idioms 13.
to make or become purple.
14.
born in/to the purple, of royal or exalted birth: Those born to the purple are destined to live in the public eye.
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purple (ˈpɜːpəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any of various colours with a hue lying between red and blue and often highly saturated; a nonspectral colour |
| 2. | a dye or pigment producing such a colour |
| 3. | cloth of this colour, often used to symbolize royalty or nobility |
| 4. | the purple high rank; nobility |
| 5. | a. the official robe of a cardinal |
| b. the rank, office, or authority of a cardinal as signified by this | |
| 6. | the purple bishops collectively |
| —adj | |
| 7. | of the colour purple |
| 8. | (of writing) excessively elaborate or full of imagery: purple prose |
| 9. | noble or royal |
| [Old English, from Latin purpura purple dye, from Greek porphura the purple fish (Murex)] | |
| 'purpleness | |
| —n | |
| 'purplish | |
| —adj | |
| 'purply | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
purple
O.E. purpul, dissimilation (first recorded in Northumbrian, in Lindisfarne gospel) from purpure "purple garment," purpuren "purple," from L. purpura "purple-dyed cloak, purple dye," also "shellfish from which purple was made," from Gk. porphyra (see porphyry), of Semitic
origin, originally the name for the shellfish (murex) from which it was obtained. Tyrian purple, produced around Tyre, was prized as dye for royal garments. As a color name, attested from late 14c. Also the color of mourning or penitence (especially in royalty or clergy). Rhetorical for "splendid, gaudy" (of prose) from 1590s. Purpur continued as a parallel form until 15c., and through 19c. in heraldry. Purple Heart, U.S. decoration for service members wounded in combat, instituted 1932; originally a cloth decoration begun by George Washington in 1782. Hendrix' Purple Haze (1967) is slang for "LSD."
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Example sentences
Others start out yellow, purple, or white before they turn colors.
Try a matte purple or blue for daytime and sparkly golds or reds for night.
Widespread form shows bronze gloss to body, blue head, and purple or blue iridescence on wings and tail.
It's much harder to laugh off a nasty remark when you lack job security or the face by your name is puke-green or sickly purple.
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