purple
pur puhl
- n a purple color or pigment
- n of imperial status
he was born to the purple - v become purple
- v color purple
- s of a color intermediate between red and blue
- s excessively elaborate or showily expressed
a writer of empurpled literature
many purple passages - s belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
purple tyrant
- Their faces were hidden by purple cloths, shrouds the purple of Christian penance.
- Miuccia Prada planted the seeds in her spring 2007 collection, sending down the runway two satin dresses the moody purple-blue of Van Gogh's irises.
- Bianchi, however, insists that Drank, despite its purple can and name, is not referring to purple drank.