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purples
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purple \Pur"ple\, n.; pl. Purples . [OE. purpre, pourpre, OF. purpre, porpre, pourpre, F. pourpre, L. purpura purple fish, purple dye, fr. Gr. ? the purple fish, a shell from the purple dye was obtained, purple dye; cf. ? dark (said of the sea), purple, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of purple English) (shades of the colour) 2 swine fever or hog cholera 3 ear cockle
Usage examples of purples.
The juvenile Purples were largely made up of children of recently immigrated Eastern European Jews, law abiding and hardworking families fleeing centuries of religious and cultural persecution in Europe.
The first was when the newly formed Purples aligned themselves with the older Oakland Sugar House Gang.
He would distance himself from the Purples in later years as the result of his success in legitimate business.
By the mid-twenties both Joe and Ray, as well as many other Purples, were spending as much time working their own individual rackets as they did with the Oakland Sugar House business.
The Medusae, you know, first promised to conquer our System for the Purples, just for a shipload of iron.
They marked the sites of battles between his faction and that of Rhigaerd, between the Reds and the Purples, between those who served the rightful ruler and those who followed a pretender to the throne.
When the Purples were crushed, then perhaps the old crown would be fetched from the vaults.
Once the Purples were crushed utterly, those nobles who survived would come crawling back for his approval and forgiveness.
He had designed that dreadful thing from scraps of information the exiles of Callisto had got from the creatures of the Runaway Star, while the Purples under Eric were in alliance with them.
But if life among the Naked Purples had any virtue, it was that the experience prepared you to cope with anything.
The Purples drenched themselves in anger, anger for its own sake, absurdity as an art and a political policy, the overturning of any and all existing forms.
Naked Purples and a mob of former convicts living cheek by jowl inside a former maximum security prison was a sure formula for confrontation.
The Purples swiftly demonstrated their talent for survival and control, and the situation settled down a bit.
The Purples worked very hard to convince themselves that work was useless.
The Final Clanners, the Naked Purples and the other culture rads took to the streets.