purplest
- superlative of purple.
Example Sentences
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We’re inviting readers to write their own over-the-top ode to the weather: Give us a paragraph about the recent heat wave, in your purplest prose.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2013
It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last fortnight Critic Olin Downes paid Moriz Rosenthal homage in a nostalgic vein with the purplest passage in the modern, if not the entire, history of the New York Times.
From Time Magazine Archive
The skies are at their bluest, now; the woods and fields are at their greenest; flowers are blooming their yellowest, and purplest, and scarletest.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 by Various
The golden walls of this palace which I have built look down, enamoured of their reflection, into a lake of the choicest, purplest wine.
From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
