Noun: purpure
Sample Sentences
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Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture. [1997, Brault, Early Blazon:]
Nouns inflected like purpure
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura. See: Middle English Nouns '
purpure', Old English Nouns '
purpure', Latin Nouns '
purpura'.