purpureal

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English

Etymology

From Latin purpureus (“purple; clothed in purple; shining”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

purpureal (comparative more purpureal, superlative most purpureal)

  1. (literary) Of a purple color.
    • 1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, London: R. Dodsley, Book 1, p. 26,[1]
      […] gliding thro’ his daughter’s honour’d shades,
      The smooth Penéus from his glassy flood
      Reflects purpureal Tempe’s pleasant scene?
    • 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab, London: for the author, Part I, p. 6,[2]
      […] but the fair star
      That gems the glittering coronet of morn,
      Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful,
      As that which, bursting from the Fairy’s form,
      Spread a purpureal halo round the scene,
    • 1815, William Wordsworth, “Laodamia” in Poems by William Wordsworth: including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Volume 1, p. 229,[3]
      […] fields invested with purpureal gleams;
    • 1909, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven
      With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned
    • 1973, Derek Walcott, Another Life, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Chapter 10, p. 63,[4]
      Above the altar-lace
      he mounted a triptych of the Assumption
      with coarse, purpureal clouds […]
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