Definition of "tyrian" []

• Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people. (adjective)
• Being of the color called Tyrian purple. (adjective)
• A native of Tyre. (noun)

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• "One recommended the Chowder Pot; we were on our way there when we happened upon a man robed in tyrian and green, who stood upon an inverted tub addressing an audience of a hundred or so:"
• "I was wondering at these hanging gardens amid the forest of pink and white marble, red sardonyx, blue-gray, and cream, and black bricks, and green and yellow and tyrian tiles, when the sight of a lansquenet guarding the entrance to a casern reminded me of the promise I had made the officer of the peltasts the night before."