Word Finder - purple

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A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.

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(colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.

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Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.

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to put on the imperial purple

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(by extension) Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.

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Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.

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The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.

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Purpura.

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Earcockle, a disease of wheat.

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Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).

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the banded purple

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A cardinalate.

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To turn purple in colour.

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To dye purple.

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To clothe in purple.

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Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.

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• purpureal

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Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state, purple city.

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(in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.

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Imperial; regal.

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Blood-red; bloody.

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(of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.

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(of a sector, lap, etc.) Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.

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A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.

Nina returned with a dress made of dark purple velvet and satin.

It was a man too familiar to be a stranger, with beautiful purple eyes, a small frame, and a face without emotion.

Purple lightening rippled in the air nearby.

His features were stoic, his beautiful purple eyes the color of spring flowers.

The man with translucent skin and purple eyes – the one Jonny hadn't exactly greeted with open arms – stood a few feet away.

The man with purple eyes knelt in front of her.

Hugging herself, she sensed the magic in the air and moved back a few steps, not wanting to be caught up in the purple crossfire.

Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the air, and disobeying orders.

A small purple purse sat on another shelf.

The priest came out with his purple velvet biretta on his head, adjusted his hair, and knelt down with an effort.

Purple magic seized him, bound him, and lifted him into the air.

Glancing around at the men with purple eyes, she began to suspect that good cause was going to kill her.

After a moment, he winked out of existence in a purple flash.

Natasha had not time to take off the bodice before the door opened and Countess Bezukhova, dressed in a purple velvet gown with a high collar, came into the room beaming with good-humored amiable smiles.

The rocking chairs were back, four in a row, red, green, yellow, and purple, adding a blaze of color against the century-old white building of Bird Song.

Martha joined them, slumping into the purple rocker, her favorite.

The cat declined a lap-offer in favor of the purple rocker, Martha's chair, as if to question the whereabouts of her missing friend.

He whistled as he shook it, and the color went from purple to orange.

Three Others with glowing purple eyes stood several feet away, frozen in surprise.

She'd been sleeping somewhat well beside the panoramic window when purple light lit up the foyer.

He was a small man with eyes that were more purple than blue.

With astonishing agility, the Grey God outmaneuvered lightening, weaving through the bursts of purple fire in a lethal dance.

No doubt the bird had mistaken the purple silk for something good to eat.

Her other dress is purple, trimmed with purple velvet, and the waist has a collar of cream lace.

It was an autumn night with dark purple clouds, but no rain.

Dean caught sight of Paulette Dawkins grabbing wildly at a purple contribution.

Her gaze shifted to the purple ring around Brady's neck before she returned to her microcomputer.

Its colors were pale purple and the bed beneath him more comfortable than any he'd lain in.

Purple magic arced from his body and slammed Darian into a tree.

Jenn dodged one and saw the flash of purple from the corner of her eye.

His body adjusted to the physical blows while his magic absorbed the purple lightning.

It bristled with purple power and was focused on her.

Purple lightning sizzled and a guardsman's sword arced towards her simultaneously.

Jenn ducked at the sight of purple lightning, stunned when he caught it midair and flung it back towards the Other.

He disappeared with a wink of purple light.

Purple light arced through the broken glass windows, high above.

Purple flashes appeared around them suddenly as his men appeared.

She bolted into the red and purple mess.

Without seeing the form clearly, she did see the purple lightening start to form in the hands of the Original Other.

Relying solely on his mortal senses, the Other unleashed a bolt of purple lightening.

Only in the descriptions of scenery, which here resemble too much purple patches, does George Sand reveal her true inspiration, the artistic qualities by which she will live.

The corolla is tubular with a spreading limb, and varies widely in colour, being white, yellow, orange, crimson, scarlet, blue or purple.

He gave strenuous support to the Spartans; evidently he had already then formed the design, in which he was supported by his mother, of gaining the throne for himself after the death of his father; he pretended to have stronger claims to it than his elder brother Artaxerxes, who was not born in the purple.

One of their objects was the collection of murex, of which an enormous supply was needed for the dyeing industry; specially famous was the purple of the Laconian waters, the isles of Elishah of Ezek.

The merchant put the gold in a bag of purple silk which he tied to his belt underneath his long cloak.

When he entered, Prince Andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, "If it were not my duty I would not talk to you for a moment"), was listening to an old Russian general with decorations, who stood very erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier's obsequious expression on his purple face, reporting something.

He was lying on his back propped up high, and his small bony hands with their knotted purple veins were lying on the quilt; his left eye gazed straight before him, his right eye was awry, and his brows and lips motionless.

The Trigla polyommata, or flying garnet, is a greater beauty, with its body of crimson and silver, and its large pectoral fins, spread like wings, of a rich green, bordered with purple, and relieved by a black and white spot.

Prominent among a great variety of song-birds and insectivorous birds are the robin, blue bird, cat bird, sparrows, meadow-lark, bobolink, thrushes, chickadee, wrens, brown thrasher, gold finch, cedar wax-wing, flycatchers, nuthatches, flicker (golden-winged woodpecker), downy and hairy woodpeckers, rose-breasted grosbeak, Baltimore oriole, barnswallow, chimney swift, purple martin, purple finch (linnet), vireos and several species of warblers.

Purple corundum, or sapphire of amethystine tint, is called Oriental amethyst, but this expression is often applied by jewellers to fine examples of the ordinary amethystine quartz, even when not derived from Eastern sources.