| 单词 | purple-wearer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple-wearer purple-wearer n. a person who habitually wears purple, esp. (formerly) a rich or noble person (cf. sense B. 1b). ΚΠ 1629 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. v. 315 The Purple seller (and if the purple seller, why not the Purple wearer?)..were in earth, Saints (as we reade) and are (we doubt not) in Abraham's bosome. 1860 G. W. Thornbury Turkish Life & Char. i. v. 97 Aqueducts built by some forgotten purple-wearer. a1906 P. L. Dunbar Coll. Poetry (1993) 32 Love is the King, the Purple-Wearer. 2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Style section) 9 These days, rather than posh people with an eye for colour, purple-wearers are likely to be gold-digging, money-grabbing, castle-creeping adventurers with raisons way beyond their etre. < as lemmas |
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