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A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.

(colour theory) 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.

Example: to put on the imperial purple

(by extension) Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.

To turn purple in colour.

To dye purple.

To clothe in purple.

A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.