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From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.

purpure (uncountable)

  1. (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:

purple colour on a coat of arms

purpure (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour purple.

in blazon, of the colour purple

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine | | depiction | a shield of gold | a shield of silver | a shield of red | a shield of blue | a shield of black | a shield of green | a shield of purple | a shield of brownish orange | a shield of bright orange | a shield of blood red | | roundel (in parentheses: semé): | a circle of goldbezant (bezanty) | a circle of silverplate (platy) | a circle of redtorteau (tortelly) | a circle of bluehurt (hurty) | a circle of blackpellet (pellety), ogress | a circle of greenpomme (pommy) | a circle of purplegolpe (golpy) | a circle of orangeorange (semé of oranges) | a circle of blood redguze (semé of guzes) | | | goutte (noun) / gutty (adjective) thereof: | a drop of gold(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold) | a drop of silverd'eau (of water) | a drop of redde sang (of blood) | a drop of bluede larmes (of tears) | a drop of blackde poix (of pitch) | a drop of greend'huile / d'olive (olive oil) | a drop of purple | | | | | | special roundel | furs | uncommon tinctures: | | | | | | | | | | tincture | fountain, syke: barry wavy argent–azure | ermine | ermines, counter-ermine | erminois | pean | vair | counter-vair | potent | counter-potent | bleu celeste, brunatre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey | | depiction | a circle of wavy blue and silver bars | a shield of ermine | a shield of ermines | a shield of erminois | a shield of pean | a shield of vair | a shield of countervair | a shield of potent | a shield of counterpotent | |

Borrowed from Latin purpura

purpure f

  1. a purple garment or material

Weak _n_-stem:

purpure

  1. inflection of purpurar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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