Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.

Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.

Blood-red; bloody.

To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

Purple is a neat-o keen color. What can we say? It was formerly the color of royalty in ancient times, and it's one of TEP National's colors; hence, we took it and made it our own to an extent nobody else would. Our front room is painted in light purple with purple trim, and with purple padding on the bar. In fact, I heard once that walking tours of the Back Bay have stopped and pointed out the front room, and just called it the Purple Room.

cloth dyed purple. Any of various colors that fall about midway between red and blue in hue. A garment of purple color, especially a purple robe worn as an emblem of rank or authority

The color of royalty, associated with rulership and rulers. The royal knight.

a chromatic color between red and blue

of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"

of a color midway between red and blue

belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"

a combination of blue and red, it has been associated with royalty since the ancient Roman times

A young color; translucent in young Beaujolais, deep in red wine which will take time to mature

a popular color for a $500.00 playing chip.

this color [or some shade of violet] in vestments usually indicates that the wearer is a bishop.

A marbled pick in a royal hue.

(purpure) - loyalty and splendor, Royal Majesty, sovereignty and justice.

common color for $500.00 playing chips. uarters - term for chips of a $25.00 denomination. ack - a plastic casino container used for carrying and counting large denominational coins, slot machine tokens, and casino chips.

A mixture of red and violet hues. It is the only colour on a conventional twelve-colour colour wheel that is not natural to the visible spectrum (as the spectrum consists in differences in wavelength, purple is a created colour that bridges the wavelength gap between the upper and lower ends of the spectrum).

The term purple in its widest sense refers to a wide variety of shades of color occurring between blue and red, this color is sometimes confused with violet.

In the history of cryptography, 97-shiki oobun Inji-ki (九七式欧文印字機) ("System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters") or Angooki Taipu-B (暗号機 タイプB) ("Type B Cipher Machine"), codenamed PURPLE by the United States, was a diplomatic cryptographic machine used by the Japanese Foreign Office just before and during World War II. The machine was an electromechanical stepping-switch device.