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purple
Part of speech: AdjectiveOf the color of blended blue and red.
Part of speech: NounA color resulting from a mixture of red and blue: the robe of this color formerly worn by royalty; hence, royal power or dignity; also, great wealth or high rank; as, born to the purple.
Part of speech: Verb Part of speech: Verb Usage examples "purple":- Now, in the purple autumn, the box was full, and the schoolmaster's term was nearly ended. - "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906", Lucy Maud Montgomery.
- Lady Glencora and Alice were sitting up- stairs with the small, purple- born one in their presence, and the small, purple- born one was lying in Alice's lap. - "Can You Forgive Her?", Anthony Trollope.
- No lit procession of purple kings is nigh so fair as that. - "The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories", Lord Dunsany.