purpure
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
- IPA(key): /pəˈpjʊə/
- IPA(key): /pɚˈpjʊɹ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
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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Translations
in blazon, of the colour purple
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See also
- Appendix:Colors
| metals | main colours | less common colours | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tincture | or | argent | gules | azure | sable | vert | purpure | tenné | orange | sanguine |
| depiction | ||||||||||
| 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) | ||||
| special roundel | furs | additional, uncommon tinctures: | ||||||||
| 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 |
| depiction | ||||||||||
Spanish
Verb
purpure
- inflection of purpurar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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