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a chromatic color between red and blue of imperial status; "he was born to the purple" color purple become purple of a color midway between red and blue chromatic 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" noble excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" rhetorical |
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