purpure

American  

[pur-pyoor] / ˈpɜr pjʊər /

noun

1. the tincture or color purple.

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adjective

1. of the tincture or color purple.

purpure British  

/ ˈpɜːpjʊə /

noun

1. (usually postpositive) heraldry purple

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Etymology

Origin of purpure

before 900; Middle English, Old English < Latin purpura purple

Example Sentences

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purpure

Combined with sable it typifies constancy in all things, particularly in love; with vert, a joyful possession of riches; and with purpure a friendly feeling even towards enemies.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

And, like some Yolande of the days of yore, My long and amply folded skirts I wear, O'er-painted with the blazon that I bear —Gules, a fess azure; purpure, fretty, or.

From A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Marriage, Ellen

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

Or, a pale purpure, flory and counter flory gules.

From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous

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