purple
/ˈpɝ.pl̩/ adjectif A2En français : violet, pourpre
- Of a purple hue.
- Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. · purple state· purple city
- Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
- Imperial; regal.
- Blood-red; bloody.
- Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose. · Near-synonyms: flowery, overwrought
- Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
Comparatif purpler · Superlatif purplest
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The air was sweet with the breath of many apple orchards and the meadows sloped away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple; while
Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.
In the garden below were lilac-trees purple with flowers, and their dizzily sweet fragrance drifted up to the window on the morning wind.
There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
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