| 单词 | purple chamber |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple chamber purple chamber n. historical a room in the palace of the Byzantine Emperors in which members of the royal family were born, believed either to be decorated with purple cloth or to be inlaid with porphyry; the porphyry chamber (cf. porphyrogenite n. and sense B. 1d); also in extended use. ΚΠ 1683 R. Dixon Canidia iii. iv. 20 Porphyrogenitus, sweet as Amber. Was begot in the Purple Chamber. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 87 An imperial Princess, porphyrogenita, or born in the sacred purple chamber itself. a1874 S. Dobell Poet. Wks. (1875) ii. 27 These pamper'd ears, born in the purple chamber Of silken state. 2000 Past & Present 169 27 The famous epithet [sc. ‘born in the purple’] derives from the purple chamber in which empresses were delivered of their children from the mid-eighth century onwards. < as lemmas |
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