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as a noun
1. any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, esp. one deep in tone. 2. cloth or clothing of this hue, esp. as formerly worn distinctively by persons of imperial, royal, or other high rank. 3. the rank or office of a cardinal. 4. the office of a bishop. 5. imperial, regal, or princely rank or position. 6. deep red; crimson. 7. any of several nymphalid butterflies, as Basilarchia astyanax (red-spotted purple), having blackish wings spotted with red, or Basilarchia arthemis (banded purple or white admiral), having brown wings banded with white.
as an adjective
8. of the color purple. 9. imperial, regal, or princely. 10. brilliant or showy. 11. full of exaggerated literary devices and effects; marked by excessively ornate rhetoric: a purple passage in a novel. 12. profane or shocking, as language.
as a verb
13. to make or become purple.
general psychology of purple
Generally purple was a very difficult dye to mix and quite expensive as well, therefore it was usually reserved for people in the position of opulance; people of royalty.
on the colour spectrum
purple is a mix of the primary colours red and blue
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