Definition of "purpled" [purpled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of purple. (verb)

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• "They sold the grain at inordinate prices, so that the amount of grain a single ass could carry brought eight of their besants, which they called "purpled," approximately 120 sous."
• "We are going to take your governments, your palaces, and all your purpled ease away from you, and in that day you shall work for your bread even as the peasant in the field or the starved and runty clerk in your metropolises."
• "He has said that it is their intention to take away from us our governments, our palaces, and all our purpled ease."