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- (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
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(in ancient Rome) position of imperial status
he was born to the purple
How To Use the purple In A Sentence
- The purple-ringed Anguillaria dioica, first seen on Pyramid Hill, again appeared here; and in many places the ground was quite yellow with the flowers of the cichoraceous plant tao whose root, small as it is, constitutes the food of the native women and children. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
- However, it's not explicit that the purple people eater is extra-terrestrial in origin, based on the lyrical evidence, only that it can fly ... Boing Boing
- The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
- The upper deck rejoined with snide remarks about the purple empire.
- I was pretty affable myself, just then, and pretended not to hear one or two of the more jealous remarks that were dropped - about how odd it was that Her Majesty hadn't chosen one of the purple brigade to squire her young cousin, not so much as Guardee even, but a plain Mr - and who the deuce were the Flashmans anyway? The Sky Writer
- He can and must use the prelatial dress, as in the Roman Curia, to wit: rochet over the purple soutane with purple mantelletta, in his attendance in the cathedral, where he has precedence over all other canons and dignitaries, as to choir stall and functions. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- Of note is the purple clematis which climbs up the wall.
- Another good association could bethe white umbel Seseli libanotus with the purple-tinted foliage of theupright Thalictrum 'Elin'. Gardens: Planting in drifts
- That flower in the garden, you know, the purple one, what is it?
- Who's that bozo in the purple shirt?