Main entry: purple, purpleness
Definition: a purple color or pigment
Main entry: purple
Definition: of imperial status
Usage: he was born to the purple
Main entry: purple, purpurate, empurple
Definition: color purple
Main entry: purple
Definition: become purple
Main entry: purple, purplish, violet
Definition: of a color intermediate between red and blue
Main entry: imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal
Definition: belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
Usage: golden age of imperial splendor; purple tyrant; regal attire; treated with royal acclaim; the royal carriage of a stag's head
Main entry: empurpled, over-embellished, purple
Definition: excessively elaborate or showily expressed
Usage: a writer of empurpled literature; many purple passages; an over-embellished story of the fish that got away