purple-fishn.

Brit.

/ˈpəːplˌfɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈpərp(ə)lˌfɪʃ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: purple n., fish n.¹

Etymology: < purple n. + fish n.¹

Now historical.

Any of various gastropod molluscs which historically yielded the dye Tyrian purple. Cf. purple n. 5.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Thaididae > member of genus Purpura (purple)

purpure?a1425

purple1580

purple-fish1591

purple whelk1681

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Bozina A trumpet,..a purple fish, Buccina, purpura, murex.

1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 100 The Purple-fish, whose liquor vsually, A violet colour on the cloth doth die.

1689 W. Cole Purpura Anglicana 1 The Purple-Fish, which I found..on the Sea Coasts of Somerset-shire, and the shores of South-Wales opposite to it.

1753 P. Templeman tr. Curious Remarks & Observ. extracted from Hist. & Mem. Royal Acad. Sci. Paris I. 118 Shell fish feed on it; and it being proper to give the dye, it was natural enough to think that the purple-fish derived their colour from thence.

1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 454 The murex, a species of shellfish, called also the purple-fish.

1866 tr. V. Hugo Toilers of Sea 95/2 There showed themselves from time to time some of the rarest bijoux of the casket of the ocean; ivory shells, strombi, purple-fish.

1927 P. Louis Anc. Rome at Work Introd. 8 For Rome, humanity laboured, toiled in the mines,..netted the purplefish which supplied the precious dye.

1998 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 118 198/2 He [sc. Agamemnon] walks on tapestries that have been dyed with a dye manufactured from crushed purple fish.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	purple-fish
释义	purple-fishn. Brit. /ˈpəːplˌfɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈpərp(ə)lˌfɪʃ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: purple n., fish n.¹ Etymology: < purple n. + fish n.¹ Now historical. Any of various gastropod molluscs which historically yielded the dye Tyrian purple. Cf. purple n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Thaididae > member of genus Purpura (purple) purpure?a1425 purple1580 purple-fish1591 purple whelk1681 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Bozina A trumpet,..a purple fish, Buccina, purpura, murex. 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 100 The Purple-fish, whose liquor vsually, A violet colour on the cloth doth die. 1689 W. Cole Purpura Anglicana 1 The Purple-Fish, which I found..on the Sea Coasts of Somerset-shire, and the shores of South-Wales opposite to it. 1753 P. Templeman tr. Curious Remarks & Observ. extracted from Hist. & Mem. Royal Acad. Sci. Paris I. 118 Shell fish feed on it; and it being proper to give the dye, it was natural enough to think that the purple-fish derived their colour from thence. 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 454 The murex, a species of shellfish, called also the purple-fish. 1866 tr. V. Hugo Toilers of Sea 95/2 There showed themselves from time to time some of the rarest bijoux of the casket of the ocean; ivory shells, strombi, purple-fish. 1927 P. Louis Anc. Rome at Work Introd. 8 For Rome, humanity laboured, toiled in the mines,..netted the purplefish which supplied the precious dye. 1998 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 118 198/2 He [sc. Agamemnon] walks on tapestries that have been dyed with a dye manufactured from crushed purple fish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591
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