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royal purple

noun

  1. a deep bluish purple.


royal purple

noun

    1. a deep reddish-purple colour, sometimes approaching a strong violet
    2. ( as adjective )

      a royal-purple dress

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of royal purple1

First recorded in 1655–65
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Example Sentences

Hillary Clinton also made an appearance in a Ralph Lauren suit of the same royal purple shade.

From Vox

In her long dress of royal purple, she was eloquently regal.

We looked at the mountains drawing their royal-purple robes around them for their night's repose.

There were suggestions of purple that reminded me of the swordfish—that royal purple game of the Pacific.

Should you lose your precious secrets, then perhaps I might coax the secret of this royal purple from my gypsy friends.

Surely, as we have seen, they could make a cape of royal purple such as is known among no other people.

Im tired of wearing royal purple dresses all the time, though of course I know theyre appropriater.

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