Of a purple colour or tinge, purplish; †(Heraldry) = purpure, adj. 2 (obsolete).

Of a purple colour; spec. of the distinguishing colour of royal or imperial dress. Cf. purple, adj. 1a 2a. Obsolete.

Formerly: of any generally red shade; (now) of a deep, rich shade intermediate between crimson and violet (cf. sense B. 2(c)).

Purple in colour; †clothed in purple (obsolete). Also: †blood-coloured, bloodstained (obsolete). Also figurative. Now archaic and poetic.

Of a purple colour; coloured with purple.

Purple-coloured. Also as n.

= purple, adj.

Purple in colour; = purpureal, adj.

Purple.

Purple in colour.

Of porphyry; porphyritic, porphyroid.

Purple; scarlet. Cf. sense A. 4. Obsolete. rare.