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purple
has definitions from the fields of color,fine art
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[ adjective ] (color) of a color midway between red and blue
Used in print (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)Whenever she found time , she went blackberry picking with him , and they would come home together , mouths purple , arms and faces scratched , tired enough to forget grief for another day . He helped Kate and Juanita enlarge the flower_garden in the side_yard , where they sometimes sat in the still evenings watching the last fat bees working against the summer 's purple dusk . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (color) a chromatic color between red and blue
Synonyms Used in print (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)Thus Burns 's `` My love is like a red , red rose '' and Hopkins ' `` The thunder-purple sea beach , plumed purple of thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content , hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] excessively elaborate or showily expressed
Synonyms Examples "a writer of empurpled literature" "many purple passages" "speech embellished with classical quotations" "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (color) become purple
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