purpure
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English
Alternative forms
- (heraldry): pu. or purp. (abbreviations)
Etymology
From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.
Pronunciation
Noun
purpure (uncountable)
- (heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.
- 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:
- Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.
- purpure:
Translations
purple colour on a coat of arms
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Adjective
purpure (not comparable)
Translations
in blazon, of the colour purple
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See also
| metals | main colours | less common colours | ||||||||
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| tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine |
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| roundel (in parentheses: semé): |  bezant (bezanty) |
 plate (platy) |
 torteau (tortelly) |
 hurt (hurty) |
 pellet (pellety), ogress |
 pomme |
 golpe (golpy) |
 orange (semé of oranges) |
 guze (semé of guzes) | |
| goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: |  (goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) |
 d'eau (of water) |
 de sang (of blood) |
 de larmes (of tears) |
 de poix (of pitch) |
 d'huile / d'olive (olive oil) |
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| tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey |
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Spanish
Verb
purpure
- inflection of purpurar: