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A purple color or pigment.
synoniem: purpleness.
Roget 434: red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose [Fr.], rose du Barry†; magenta, damask, purple; ... meer laten zien
Roget 437: purple etc. adj.; blue and red, bishop's purple; aniline dyes, gridelin†, amethyst; purpure [Heral.]; heliotrope. lividness, lividity.
Roget 747: scepter, regalia, caduceus; Mercury's rod, Mercury's staff, Mercury's wand; rod of empire, mace, fasces†, wand; staff, staff of office; baton, truncheon; ... meer laten zien
Nederlands: purper
Pools: purpura
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in ancient Rome Position of imperial status:
— He was born to the purple.
synoniem: the purple.
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Roman Catholic Church Official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes.
synoniem: the purple.
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Become purple.
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Of a color intermediate between red and blue.
Roget 437: purple, violet, ultraviolet; plum-colored, lavender, lilac, puce, mauve; livid.
Pools: fioletowawy
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Excessively elaborate or showily expressed:
— A writer of empurpled literature.
— Many purple passages.
synoniemen: empurpled, over-embellished.
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Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler:
— Purple tyrant.
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Mars violet, Tyrian purple, adorned, amethyst, amethystine, befrilled, blue, bombastic, broad, cap of dignity, cap of maintenance, clematis, colored, coronet, crown, dahlia, damson, decorated, diadem, dynastic ... meer laten zien.
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