porporate

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  1. Clad or robed in purple. [Rare.] Make your brothers priests, Paul shall be porporate, and Girolamo step Red-stockinged in the presence when you choose, But save one Franceschini for the age. Browning, Ring and Book, v. 227.

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  1. Italian porporato, from Latin purpuratus, clad in purple, from purpura, purple.
 

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