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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to the ancient city and state of Tyre in Phenicia, on the Mediterranean.
  2. Of a purple color characteristic of Tyre.
  3. n. A native of Tyre.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people.
  2. adj. Being of the color called Tyrian purple.
  3. n. A native of Tyre.

Examples

  • “One recommended the Chowder Pot; we were on our way there when we happened upon a man robed in tyrian and green, who stood upon an inverted tub addressing an audience of a hundred or so:”

    The Urth of the New Sun

  • “I was wondering at these hanging gardens amid the forest of pink and white marble, red sardonyx, blue-gray, and cream, and black bricks, and green and yellow and tyrian tiles, when the sight of a lansquenet guarding the entrance to a casern reminded me of the promise I had made the officer of the peltasts the night before.”

    The Shadow of the Torturer

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  1. tyrian dye

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. grain
  1. porphyry-shell
  1. murex
  1. purple of mollusca
  1. tyrian
  1. purple
  1. dog-winkle
  1. punicin

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