NOUN
- a red-purple to deep purple dye obtained from snails or made synthetically
- a vivid purplish-red color; in ancient Rome and Byzantium, it was the color worn by an emperor or senior magistrate
How To Use Tyrian purple In A Sentence
- Tyrian purple, from the shellfish murex, was a dye reserved for the emperor; this dye was worth several times its weight in gold.
- Is this indeed the "murex," as Browning calls it, of the Tyrian purple, which can be found on the Minehead rocks at low-tide by the holiday-makers of our day? Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
- Fifty years old and self-made, likes to dress when not obliged to be togate in a full-length robe of Tyrian purple, and full of detestable affectations of speech and manner. Fortune's Favorites