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

From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.

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:  

purple colour on a coat of arms

purpure (not comparable)

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

in blazon, of the colour purple

metals main colours less common colours
tincture or argent gules azure sable vert purpure tenné orange sanguine
depiction                    
roundel (in parentheses: semé):  
bezant (bezanty)		  
plate (platy)		  
torteau (tortelly)		  
hurt (hurty)		  
pellet (pellety), ogress		  
pomme		  
golpe (golpy)		  
orange (semé of oranges)		  
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof:  
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)		  
d'eau (of water)		  
de sang (of blood)		  
de larmes (of tears)		  
de poix

(of pitch)

  
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)		  
special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure ermine ermines, counter-ermine erminois pean vair counter-vair potent counter-potent bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
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purpure

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