purpure

• (heraldry): pu. or purp. (abbreviations)

From Old French purpure (“purple”). Doublet of purple.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈpjʊə/
• IPA^(key): /pɚˈpjʊɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊɹ, -ʊə

purpure (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.
   • 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:

     Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.

   purpure:  

purpure (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour purple.

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purpure

1. inflection of purpurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative