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noun

Purpura n.

(Med.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.

(Zool.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.

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Etymology of 'Purpura'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Purpura" Quotes from Famous Books

... tissue. Fr. Michell quotes velvet of Vermeil-cramoisi, "violet and blue cramoisi, and pourpre of divers colours," but he says he never met with "pourpre blanche." Yule, ed. 1875, i. p. 67. Plano Carpini (p. 755) says the courtiers of Karakorum were clad in "white purpura;" and that on the first day of the great festival in honour of the inauguration of Kuyuk Khan, all the Mogul nobles were clad in pourpre blanche, the second day in ruby purple, and the third in blue purple: on the fourth day they appeared ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... argento. Candet ebur soliis, collucent pocula mensae, 45 Tota domus gaudet regali splendida gaza. Pulvinar vero divae geniale locatur Sedibus in mediis, Indo quod dente politum Tincta tegit roseo conchyli purpura fuco. Haec vestis priscis hominum variata figuris 50 Heroum mira virtutes indicat arte. Namque fluentisono prospectans litore Diae Thesea cedentem celeri cum classe tuetur Indomitos in corde gerens Ariadna furores, Necdum etiam sese quae visit ...

— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus

Words linked to "Purpura" : Werlhof's disease, thrombocytopenic purpura, peliosis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura