Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete variant of
purple .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Purple.
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- noun obsolete
purple - adjective obsolete
purple
Etymologies
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Examples
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BMNS C/1/14; [Hellot], "Carmine, purpre et violet" Recueil de tous les procédés de la porcelaine de la Manufacture royale de Vincennes, 122. back
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(Paris, 1782), 1: 222 – 23; "Procédés de Bailly," 15 Germinal an 5 [5 April 1797], BMNS C/1/8, pp. 3 – 4; "Acquisition du secret de Sieur Taunay pour les couleurs carmine, purpre et violet," n.d.,
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Recognizing their separate gradations and scales explains eighteenth-century discussions; the differences between colors such as prune Monsieur and purpre l'Eveque, for example, are incomprehensible without this understanding.
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The 3 thousand is clothed in clothes of silk, of purpre of Ynde.
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The 3 thousand is clothed in clothes of silk, of purpre of Ynde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 3 thousand is clothed in clothes of silk, of purpre of Ynde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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{35} ant al þe {c} ur wes bitild. þ̵ he wes in. wið purpre wið pal. ⁊ wið ciclatu {n}.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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