purpure

• (heraldry): pu. or purp. (abbreviations)

From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈpjʊə/
• IPA^(key): /pɚˈpjʊɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

purpure (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.
   • 1997, Brault, Early Blazon:

     Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.

   purpure:  

purpure (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour purple.

• Appendix:Colors

	metals		main colours				less common colours
tincture	or	argent	gules	azure	sable	vert	purpure	tenné	orange	sanguine
depiction
roundel (in parentheses: semé):	bezant (bezanty)	plate (platy)	torteau (tortelly)	hurt (hurty)	pellet (pellety), ogress	pomme	golpe (golpy)	orange (semé of oranges)		guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof:	(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)	d'eau (of water)	de sang (of blood)	de larmes (of tears)	de poix (of pitch)	d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)
	special roundel	furs								additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture	fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure	ermine	ermines, counter-ermine	erminois	pean	vair	counter-vair	potent	counter-potent	bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
depiction

purpure

1. inflection of purpurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative