Purple vs Lion - What's the difference?
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A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
* Milton
Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
* Bible, Exodus xxvi. 1
(by extension) Imperial power, (because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings).
* Gibbon
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
* 2005 , Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller ,
* 2010 , Mark Arax, West of the West ,
* 2011 , Danielle Santiago, Allure of the Game ,
(medicine) purpura
earcockle, a disease of wheat.
Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia'' (formerly ''Limenitis ).
A cardinalate.
Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
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*: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.
Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state'', ''purple city .
*2010 , Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada , University of Nevada Press, ISBN 978-0-87417-826-5,
*: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.
(label) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
Imperial; regal.
*(Percy Bysshe Shelley) (1792–1882)
*:Hide in the dust thy purple pride.
Blood-red; bloody.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:May such purple tears be alway shed.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:I view a field of blood, / And Tiber rolling with a purple blood.
Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
To turn purple in colour.
* 1999 , David Edelstein, (In Nomine): Corporeal Player's Guide , Steve Jackson Games, ISBN 1-55634-389-2, page 8:
A big cat, Panthera leo , native to Africa, India and formerly to much of Europe. The term may apply to the species as a whole, to individuals, or to male individuals. It also applies to related species like mountain lions.
# A male lion.
(heraldiccharge) A stylized representation of a large cat, used on a coat of arms.
A Chinese foo dog.
An individual who shows strength and courage, attributes associated with the lion.
* 2003 , Peter Armstrong and Angus McBride, Stirling Bridge & Falkirk 1297–98: William Wallace's Rebellion :
A famous person regarded with interest and curiosity.
* Prof. Wilson
* 1919 ,
A light brown color that resembles the fur of a lion
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English
(wikipedia purple)Noun
(en noun)- Arraying with reflected purple and gold / The clouds that on his western throne attend.
- to put on the imperial purple
- Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and purple , and scarlet.
- He was born in the purple .
- The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple .
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- "Sure, some purple Owlsley."
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- “Purple' smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real '''purple'''. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some ' purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
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- She preferred to smoke some good purple , but getting high wasn't an option.
- the banded purple
Adjective
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Antonyms
* (having purple as its colour) nonpurpleVerb
- The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.
Derived terms
* bepurple * born in the purple * purpureal * French purple * purple bird * purple copper ore * purple finch * purple gallinule * purple grackle * Purple Heart * purple loosestrife * purple martin * purple of Cassius * purple of mollusca * purple passage * purple patch * purple prose * purple sandpiper * purple shell * purple state * purpleheart * royal purple * Tyrian purple * visual purpleSee also
* purpure * rhodopsin * secondary color * English reduplicationslion
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Tigers and lions share a common ancestor from a few million years ago.
- It was said of [Edward Plantaganet] that 'he was a lion for pride and ferocity but a pard for inconstancy and changeableness, not keeping his word or promise but excusing himself with fair words'.
- Such society was far more enjoyable than that of Edinburgh, for here he was not a lion , but a man.
- Rose Waterford was a cynic. She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material. Now and then she invited members of it to her house if they showed an appreciation of her talent and entertained with proper lavishness. She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.