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Word:
purple
IPA transcription: [p'ɝpəl]
Pronunciations of purple
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adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
purple, violet, purplish
Meaning:
of a color intermediate between red and blue
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
purple, purpleness
Meaning:
a purple color or pigment
Usage examples
The purple vaulted night
Conway fairly turned purple with rage.
Mr. Hickman was purple in the face with rage.
"Or the one with the peacock in green and purple.
A woman dressed in purple, leading a little child without any hat?"
Her dress was a purple slip just to her knees, with a big rent in the skirt.
The Purple Hills were more softly purple than at any other season of the year.
People whispered with terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple.
In meeting woods, whereon a film of mist Slept like the bloom upon the purple grape,
Major Flint choked and laughed and inhaled tobacco smoke till he got purple in the face.
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Common chiffchaff
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