- having the colour of blue and red mixed together
- a purple flower/dress
- His face was purple with rage.
- The effort was making her face turn purple.
- It produces lovely dark purple berries around this time of year.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- almost
- slightly
- bright
- vivid
- dark
- …
- purple in the face
- purple with rage
- purple prose/passage writing or a piece of writing that is too grand in style
Word OriginOld English (describing the clothing of an emperor), alteration of purpre, from Latin purpura ‘purple’, from Greek porphura, denoting molluscs that yielded a crimson dye, also cloth dyed with this.
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