1. Excessively elaborate or showily expressed
   "a writer of empurpled literature"
   - over-embellished, purple

1. Colour purple
   - purple, purpurate

See also: rhetorical

Type of: color [US], color in [US], colorise [Brit], colorize [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], colour in [Brit, Cdn], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn]

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