royal purple

noun
a deep bluish purple.

Origin:
1655–65

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royal purple
 
n
a.  a deep reddish-purple colour, sometimes approaching a strong violet
 b.  (as adjective): a royal-purple dress

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Royal purple is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
Example sentences
When my bare hands emerged from scraping the last bits off the press, they were royal purple.
Within the span of fifteen minutes, the sky morphed from blackened blue to a dark royal purple.
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