Noun
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of imperial status
"he was born to the purple"
-
a purple color or pigment
Verb
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color purple
- purpurate -
become purple
Adjective
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belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
"golden age of imperial splendor"
"purple tyrant"
"regal attire"
"treated with royal acclaim"
"the royal carriage of a stag's head"
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excessively elaborate or showily expressed
"a writer of empurpled literature"
"many purple passages"
"an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
- over embellished -
of a color intermediate between red and blue