Meaning of purple | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a purple hue.
2. murrey
3. Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
   US
4. Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
   Belgium, Netherlands
5. a bruise
6. Imperial; regal.
7. Blood-red; bloody.
8. Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
9. Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.

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Examples

“So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”

“purple state”

“purple city”

“In the end⟳, Nevada remained the quintessential purple state. On the maps that television used to illustrate⟳ political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a purple suburban belt. Most of the rest⟳ of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.”

“As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason⟳ was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two.”

“Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak⟳ of North Carolina, and I have⟳ receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.”

“Grovel on the earth: aye, hide⟳ / In the dust thy purple pride!”

“O may ſuch purple teares be alway ſhed”

“Wars, horrid Wars I view⟳; a field of Blood; / And Tyber rolling with a Purple Flood⟳.”

“Near-synonyms: flowery, overwrought”

“A writer who has made a career of churning out thick novels may be expected to write⟳ too quickly to notice⟳ that patches of her writing are unbearably purple.”

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