purple

A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.

Arraying with reflected Purple and Gold / The Clouds that on his Weſtern Throne attend.

Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.

Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.

to put on the imperial purple

Thy head as Carmelus: and the heares of thy head as a kings purple tyed to cundite pipes.

Imperial power.

1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire He was born in the purple.

When we picture to ourselves his [Napoleon’s] dawning military genius at Toulon—his daring and decided politics in the storms of the Revolution—his Cæsarian ambition in assuming the purple—[…]

Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.

Of a purple hue.

So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.

purple state

purple city

Mixed between social democrats and liberals.

Imperial; regal.

Grovel on the earth: aye, hide / In the dust thy purple pride!

Blood-red; bloody.

O may ſuch purple teares be alway ſhed

Wars, horrid Wars I view; a field of Blood; / And Tyber rolling with a Purple Flood.

To turn purple in colour.

[T]he Capri cliffs, the tops of which were still pink against the purpling sky.

The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.

To dye purple.

Year after year unto her feet, / She lying on her couch alone, / Across the purpled coverlet, / The maiden's jet-black hair has grown, […]

To clothe in purple.

To pursue the opposite gender in inappropriate circumstances, usually of adolescents. (From the metaphor of mixing blue [boys] and pink [girls].)

I've been noticing some of the youth group leaders purpling.

“Cap doesn't like any purpling.” My brow furrows. “What is purpling?” “Boys are blue. Girls are red.” She threads her fingers together, so that her hands are linked as one and scrunches her nose again, like purpling is the last thing she'd ever want to do.