purpure

• (heraldry): pu. or purp. (abbreviations)

From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈpjʊə/
• IPA^(key): /pɚˈpjʊɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

purpure (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.
   • 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:

     Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.

   purpure:  

purpure (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour purple.

• Appendix:Colors

Borrowed from Latin purpura

• IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.re/, [ˈpurˠ.pu.re]

purpure f

1. a purple garment or material
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Hwīlon cōm sē deofol, on ānre dīgelnysse, mid purpuran ġescrȳd, and mid helme ġeglenġd, tō ðām hālgan were, þǣr hē hine ġebǣd, and cwæð, þæt hē wǣre witodlīċe sē Hǣlend.

     Once the Devil came, shrouded in a purple garment and adorned with a crown, to the holy man in a recess where he was praying, and said that he was truly the Savior.

Weak n-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “purpure”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

purpure

1. inflection of purpurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative