单词 | purpleman |
释义 | > as lemmasPurpleman Purpleman n. a person who has reached the second rank or degree in the Orange Order; cf. Orangeman n.1 ΚΠ 1823 Times 9 May 2/5 Witness certainly did not conceive that his oath, as an Orangeman, bound him to conceal any truth from the house. Knows so little of party matter, that he cannot well say whether he is a ‘purple-man’ or not. 1836 Fraser's Mag. 13 393 The very names of ‘Orangeman’ and ‘Purpleman’ are beneath the real elevation of their high and noble cause. 1972 T. Gray Orange Order 215 In Northern Ireland [the Arch Purple] merely represents a transitional stage through which a Purpleman must go before he becomes one of the Black Preceptories. 2002 K. Haddick-Flynn Short Hist. Orangeism 61 Most Orangemen are ‘Purplemen’ and its degree is regarded as the culmination of the natural progression through the Orange Order. < as lemmas |
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