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Date: 900-1000
Language: Latin
Origin: purpura, from Greek porphyra type of shellfish from which purple coloring was obtained

purple

1 noun
     
Related topics: Colours
pur‧ple1 [uncountable]
CC a dark colour that is a mixture of red and blue
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