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purple

/'pɜrpəl/

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noun
a purple color or pigment
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purpleness

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spectral color chromatic colour chromatic color spectral colour
adjective
of a color intermediate between red and blue
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purplish violet chromatic
adjective
belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
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"purple tyrant"

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imperial majestic regal royal noble
verb
color purple
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empurple purpurate

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colorise color color in colorize colour colour in colourise colourize
noun
(in ancient Rome) position of imperial status
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"he was born to the purple"

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the purple

type of:
nobility noblesse
adjective
excessively elaborate or showily expressed
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"a writer of empurpled literature" "many purple passages"

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empurpled over-embellished rhetorical
noun
(Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
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the purple

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ecclesiastical robe ecclesiastical attire
verb
become purple
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color discolour discolor colour

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