单词 | purpie |
释义 | purpieadj. Scottish. = purple adj.Recorded earliest in purpie fever: see purple fever n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] purpurine1300 purpurec1400 purple1415 purpurate?c1422 purple-coloured1567 porphyrite1601 purpie1651 purpurean1656 blattean1658 purpureal1708 porphyrous1798 Babylonian1846 1651 Ld. Wariston Diary (1919) II. 124 Many dying dayly of the purpy fever. 1683 in A. M. Munro Rec. Old Aberdeen (1899) I. 139 Ane long coat of ane purpie collour. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems II. 109 Now Morn, with bonny Purpie-smiles, Kisses the Air-cock o' St. Giles. 1844 J. Lemon Lays St. Mungo 49 We laiggart a' our cheeks Wi' the bonnie purpie dye. 1949 People's Jrnl. 15 Jan. (Aberdeen City ed.) 3/4 When a girl I was asked by my grandmother to go to the chemist and buy twopence worth of purpie sticks. a1975 S. G. Smith tr. A. Blok in P. France & D. Glen European Poetry in Scotl. (1989) 70 Yon purpie birth-scaur On her richt shouther. 1996 W. N. Herbert Cabaret McGonagall 49 Thi purpie spires o rose-bay willa herb. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1651 |
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