purpure
Americannoun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of purpure
before 900; Middle English, Old English < Latin purpura purple
Example Sentences
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For the glorye of the peple is the dignite of the kynge/ And aboue all other the kynge ought to be replenysshid with vertues and of grace/ and thys signefieth the purpure.
From Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by Caxton, William
Supporters—Two angels vested purpure, winged and crined or, each holding in the exterior hand a key or.
From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton
For he must sitte in a chayer clothed in purpure/ crowned on his heed in his ryght hand a ceptre and in the lyfte hande an apple of gold/.
From Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by Caxton, William
The Torteau, No. 152, in the plural Torteaux, is gules: the Hurt is azure: the Pellet or Ogress is sable: the Pomme is vert: and the Golpe is purpure.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
He opens his intention of improving, by the classical graces of composition, the rude labours of our ancestors; for, “Except Truth be delicately clothed in purpure, her written verytees can scant find a reader.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
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