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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English purpel, purpul, from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpurpəl/, /ˈpurpul/
Noun
purpel (uncountable)
- purple fabric, especially an article of clothing
- purple, violet, crimson (colour)
- (heraldry) purple as a tincture
- (medicine, rare) A purple wound or sore.
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Adjective
purpel
- purple-coloured
- Dyed using a purple dye or pigment
- (heraldry) Of purple as a tincture
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Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)
| whit
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grey, hor
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blak
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| red; cremesyn, gernet
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citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne
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yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
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| grasgrene
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grene
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| plunket; ewage
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asure, livid
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blewe, blo, pers
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| violet; inde
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rose, murrey; purpel, purpur
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claret
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