Crossword-Solution: PURPURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Purpure | n. | Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base). |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PURPURE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| TINCTURE (her.) | 8 answers |
| HERALDIC tincture | 12 answers |
| Heraldry | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEZMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PURPURE (5)
That old shield of Florence, parted per pale, argent and gules, (or our own Saxon Oswald's, parted per pale, or and purpure,) are heraldry changeless in sign; declaring the necessary balance, in ruling men, of the Rational and Imaginative powers; pure Alp, and glowing cloud.
After the mother of Coriolanus and other Roman women had preserved their country, how could the senate reward them?--"Sanxit uti foeminis semitâ viri cederent--permisit quoque his purpureâ veste et aureis uti segmentis." It was sanctioned by the senate, you perceive, that men should yield the wall to the sex, in honour, and that they should be allowed the distinction of purple vests and golden borders--privileges the female world still enjoy.
Ipse, lōrīcā aurātā et paludāmentō purpureō īnsignis, captīvōs per interpretem in hunc modum interrogat:[14] Vōs quī estis[15]? INTERPRES.
Two other Colours, or tints of Colour, are sometimes heard of--_Tenne_, a tawny or orange colour, indicated by vertical lines crossing those of _Purpure_: and _Murrey_ or _Sanguine_, a dark crimson red, indicated by diagonal lines from both dexter and sinister, crossing each other.
For _Purpure_:--mix _carmine_ and _French blue_, with a little gum: shade with a darker tint of the same.
Quotes with PURPURE (1)
I will not mention the name (and what bits of it I happen to give here appear in decorous disguise) of that man, that Franco-Hungarian writer... I would rather not dwell upon him at all, but I cannot help it — he is surging up from under my pen. Today one does not hear much about him; and this is good, for it proves that I was right in resisting his evil spell, right in experiencing a creepy chill down my spine whenever this or that new book of his touched my hand. The fame o…