purpureal
English
Etymology
From Latin purpureus (“purple; clothed in purple; shining”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
purpureal (comparative more purpureal, superlative most purpureal)
- (literary) Of a purple color.
- 1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination, London: R. Dodsley, Book 1, p. 26,[1]
- 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 […]