Definition of "purpure" []

• : A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise. (noun)
• In blazon, of the colour purple. (adjective)

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• "The juma records stated the Collector had been buried in his "robes of purpure royal.""
• "I think the purple of the mantling highly effective -- purpure, that's called -- which, taken with the red and black, would give a most romantic light to our hall in New Babylon if we put a window at the turn of the stair."
• "In the Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (Vol. I, p. 254) the family is traced to the year 1588, and the arms given as Vair, purpure and erm on a chief gu."