Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Purple.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a purple color; purple.
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- adjective Of a
purple colour.
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Examples
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With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; 150
The Hound of Heaven 1917
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Her refusal to wink at the Princess's goings-on, her austere, if provincial, regard for the convenances, had cost her the place, and from these purpureal heights she had fallen lower and lower, till she struck the attic of the Hôtel des Tourterelles.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
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On the contrary, he was just one of those purpureal, imposing, nugatory personages who, because of his easygoing nullity, his commonplace, worldly shrewdness, and his total absence of zeal and genius, suited the corrupt luke-warmness of a semi-Christian city.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Arsacius, pompous and purpureal as his luxurious brother had been, was only too glad to give every facility for removing ‘all that rubbish,’ as he called it.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Some of the maps are marked with red lines showing, in the words of another illustrious Johnian, "fields invested with purpureal gleams."
The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge Henry Festing Jones 1889
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I, too, might have observed something as I went sailing over the purpureal ocean.
Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy Edmund Gosse 1888
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And Lucy wondered why the long ascent to Nemi was so delightful; why the scirocco seemed to have gone from the air, leaving so purpureal and divine a light on mountain and lake and distance.
Eleanor Humphry Ward 1885
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Samphire sprouts between the blocks of marble, and in sheltered nooks the caper hangs her beautiful purpureal snowy bloom.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Samphire sprouts between the blocks of marble, and in sheltered nooks the caper hangs her beautiful purpureal snowy bloom.
New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866
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Samphire sprouts between the blocks of marble, and in sheltered nooks the caper hangs her beautiful purpureal snowy bloom.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Thine is the tranquil hour, purpureal Eve!
--Wm. Wordsworth, Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty.
August 30, 2014