purple heartn.

Brit.

/ˌpəːpl ˈhɑːt/, U.S.

/ˌpərp(ə)l ˈhɑrt/ (in sense 1)Brit.

/ˈpəːpl hɑːt/, U.S.

/ˈpərp(ə)l ˌhɑrt/

Forms: see purple adj. and n. and heart n. In senses 2 and 3 also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: purple adj., heart n.

Etymology: < purple adj. + heart n.

1. In later use frequently as purpleheart.

a. The heartwood of any of several tall trees of the genera Peltogyne and Copaifera (family Caesalpiniaceae ( Leguminosae)) of tropical South America and the Caribbean, which is valued for its rich purple colour and is used widely in furniture-making, marquetry, flooring, etc.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > evergreens

boldo1717

purple heart1738

ombú1839

pepper tree1848

velvet-seed1866

swizzle-stick tree1943

1738 J. Bennett Two Lett. Sugar Colonies & Trade App. 63 That Care be taken to preserve a sufficient Quantity of hard Timber..such as Green Heart, Bully Tree, Mastick, Fustick, Purple Heart, and the like.

1799 D. Steel Steel's Tables Brit. Custom & Excise Duties 56 Any British-built ships..may import into any British West-India Islands..the following species of timber, viz. bully-tree, purple-heart, green-heart.., or bastard mahogany.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. 530 C. pubiflora, and probably C. bracteata also, furnish the Purple Heart or Purple Wood of Guiana, which is largely employed for making musket-ramrods, &c.

1893 Times 26 Jan. 14/6 Purpleheart is unique in being of a pretty violet colour when fresh... The furniture made from it exactly resemble that from rosewood.

1932 J. Buchan Magic Walking-stick (c1934) xxii. 156 The magic staff is not quite four feet long... It is made of a heavy dark red wood, rather like the West Indian purpleheart.

1998 M. J. Cole Pianoforte in Classical Era xvii. 286 Purpleheart was a favourite for crossbandings around keyboards.

b. More fully purple heart tree. Any of the trees producing such wood.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [adjective]

softwood1539

citrean1616

pepperidge1689

purple heart1769

narra1779

leafy1810

saffraan1819

quandong1836

padauk1839

tamanu1839

titoki1842

til1858

odum1887

sapele1904

broad-leaved1905

peroba1920

ocote1926

pyinkado1934

ponderosa1937

ahuehuete1948

Mansonia1958

obeche1958

podo1961

black-gum1969

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies

sweetwood1607

mastic1657

acajou1666

bastard locust tree1670

alligator wood1696

muskwood1696

lancewood1697

rodwood1716

cog-wood1725

soapwood1733

down tree?1740

pigeon plum1743

break-axe tree1756

horse-wood1756

loblolly whitewood1756

Spanish elm1756

trumpet-tree1756

ahuehuete1778

ocote1787

locust tree1795

Madeira wood1796

peroba1813

roble1814

louro1816

cecropia1824

purple heart1825

wallaba1825

trumpet-wood1836

gumbo-limbo1837

poui1838

quebracho1839

snake-wood1843

yacca1843

horseflesh wood1851

necklace tree1858

Honduras rosewood1860

turanira1862

softwood1864

wattle-wood1864

balsa tree1866

primavera1871

rauli1874

lemon-wood1879

wheel-tree1882

Spanish stopper1883

gurgeon-stopper1884

pinkwood-tree1884

stopper1884

sloth-tree1885

imbaubaa1893

Spanish cedar1907

amarant1909

Parana pine1916

imbuya1919

mastic-bully1920

banak1921

timbo1924

becuiba1934

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 69 The Purple Hart Tree grows to equal height and magnitude with the [Green Hart Tree].

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. 17 The purple-heart-tree grows sometimes to the height of fourscore feet.

1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. 24 Wallaba, purple-heart,..and mora, are met with in vast abundance, far and near, towering up in majestic grandeur.

1845 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom (1846) 550 The Purple Heart, a Guiana timber tree of great toughness, whose timber is found invaluable for resisting the shock of artillery discharges,..is the Copaifera pubiflora and bracteata.

1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle vi. i. 200 There were no tall trees, no soaring palms or smooth-stemmed purplehearts.

1978 Post–Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 Dec. 1/4 The indigenous purpleheart and greenheart trees were of such hard wood that the pilgrims ruined their saws trying to clear them.

2. U.S. In form Purple Heart. A decoration awarded for military service: originally, in the revolutionary war, a decoration awarded for meritorious action in general (now historical); in recent use, a decoration awarded to a member of the armed services wounded in action. Also more fully Purple Heart Award.A decoration consisting of a heart-shaped piece of purple cloth (known as the ‘Badge of Military Merit’) was instituted by George Washington in 1782, but later fell into disuse. The present bronze enamelled medal was instituted in 1932.

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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders

Order of St Michael1530

Legion of Honour1802

clasp1813

Iron Cross1813

medal1813

star1844

Victoria Cross1856

V.C.1859

Medal of Honour1861

bar1864

yellow jacket1864

V.D.1901

Croix de Guerre1915

Military Cross1915

C.G.M.1916

Military Medal1916

pip1917

M.M.1918

purple heart1918

Maconochie Cross1919

Maconochie Medal1919

wound-stripe1919

T.D.1924

rooty gong1925

Silver Star1932

Ritterkreuz1940

Africa Star1943

ruptured duck1945

Spam medal1945

screaming eagle1946

1918 Chicago Tribune 20 Jan. c5 While the army was encamped about Newburgh he [sc. George Washington] established the order of military merit known as the Purple Heart.

1930 Washington Post 23 Mar. 17 Restablishment of the ‘Purple Heart’, a military decoration of the Order of Military Merit, established near the close of the American Revolution by Gen. George Washington, is being planned by the War Department.

1932 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 27 Feb. 602/4 Awards of the Purple Heart for acts or service performed prior to Feb. 22, 1932, will be confined to the following persons.

1948 E. E. Cummings Let. 27 Aug. (1969) 185 The hyper~scientific climax of this hero (a prominent killer, holder of Silver Stars & Clusters & Purple Hearts galore)'s experience.

1974 Sumter (S. Carolina) Daily Item 23 Apr. 4 a/4 He is a recipient of the Purple Heart Award and Army Commendation Medal.

1986 New Yorker 28 Apr. 54/3 He returned from the war—having also won the Purple Heart—‘deeply shaken’.

1990 Sky Mag. Apr. 16/1 Paralysed Vietnam vet..returns from the war with a Purple Heart and a broken back.

3. British colloquial. Originally: a tablet of the drug Drinamyl, containing dextroamphetamine and amylobarbitone (in reference to its colour and shape). Later also: a tablet of any amphetamine.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > stimulant drug(s) > specific stimulant drugs

amyl nitrite1881

Methedrine1939

Dexedrine1942

benzylpiperazine1947

dexamphetamine1949

dextro-amphetamine1949

methamphetamine1949

Drinamyl1950

benny1955

dexie1956

purple heart1961

crystal1964

French blue1964

meth1966

speed1967

splash1967

purple1968

crank1969

crystal meth1969

crystal methamphetamine1970

dex1984

ice1989

BZP1997

tik2004

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > stimulant > pills

pep pill1917

amphetamine1955

purple heart1961

black bomber1963

black beauty1966

white1967

wake-up1969

wakey-wakey pill1977

wake-up pill1979

1961 Guardian 23 Mar. 3/1 Drinamyl, a Schedule 1 poison known in the trade as ‘purple heart’.

1962 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 21/1 People involved in the investigation had already had ‘purple heart’ tablets prescribed for them by their own doctors.

1971 N. Stacey Who Cares? xvi. 276 They became more responsible, they took more interest in life, they stopped taking purple hearts and they settled down in their homes, their schools and their jobs.

1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 170 ‘Purple hearts’ is slang for speed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	purple heart
释义	purple heartn. Brit. /ˌpəːpl ˈhɑːt/, U.S. /ˌpərp(ə)l ˈhɑrt/ (in sense 1)Brit. /ˈpəːpl hɑːt/, U.S. /ˈpərp(ə)l ˌhɑrt/ Forms: see purple adj. and n. and heart n. In senses 2 and 3 also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: purple adj., heart n. Etymology: < purple adj. + heart n. 1. In later use frequently as purpleheart. a. The heartwood of any of several tall trees of the genera Peltogyne and Copaifera (family Caesalpiniaceae ( Leguminosae)) of tropical South America and the Caribbean, which is valued for its rich purple colour and is used widely in furniture-making, marquetry, flooring, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > evergreens boldo1717 purple heart1738 ombú1839 pepper tree1848 velvet-seed1866 swizzle-stick tree1943 1738 J. Bennett Two Lett. Sugar Colonies & Trade App. 63 That Care be taken to preserve a sufficient Quantity of hard Timber..such as Green Heart, Bully Tree, Mastick, Fustick, Purple Heart, and the like. 1799 D. Steel Steel's Tables Brit. Custom & Excise Duties 56 Any British-built ships..may import into any British West-India Islands..the following species of timber, viz. bully-tree, purple-heart, green-heart.., or bastard mahogany. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. 530 C. pubiflora, and probably C. bracteata also, furnish the Purple Heart or Purple Wood of Guiana, which is largely employed for making musket-ramrods, &c. 1893 Times 26 Jan. 14/6 Purpleheart is unique in being of a pretty violet colour when fresh... The furniture made from it exactly resemble that from rosewood. 1932 J. Buchan Magic Walking-stick (c1934) xxii. 156 The magic staff is not quite four feet long... It is made of a heavy dark red wood, rather like the West Indian purpleheart. 1998 M. J. Cole Pianoforte in Classical Era xvii. 286 Purpleheart was a favourite for crossbandings around keyboards. b. More fully purple heart tree. Any of the trees producing such wood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [adjective] softwood1539 citrean1616 pepperidge1689 purple heart1769 narra1779 leafy1810 saffraan1819 quandong1836 padauk1839 tamanu1839 titoki1842 til1858 odum1887 sapele1904 broad-leaved1905 peroba1920 ocote1926 pyinkado1934 ponderosa1937 ahuehuete1948 Mansonia1958 obeche1958 podo1961 black-gum1969 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies sweetwood1607 mastic1657 acajou1666 bastard locust tree1670 bastard locust tree1670 alligator wood1696 muskwood1696 lancewood1697 rodwood1716 cog-wood1725 soapwood1733 down tree?1740 pigeon plum1743 break-axe tree1756 horse-wood1756 loblolly whitewood1756 Spanish elm1756 trumpet-tree1756 ahuehuete1778 ocote1787 locust tree1795 Madeira wood1796 peroba1813 roble1814 louro1816 cecropia1824 purple heart1825 wallaba1825 trumpet-wood1836 gumbo-limbo1837 poui1838 quebracho1839 snake-wood1843 yacca1843 horseflesh wood1851 necklace tree1858 Honduras rosewood1860 turanira1862 softwood1864 wattle-wood1864 balsa tree1866 primavera1871 rauli1874 lemon-wood1879 wheel-tree1882 Spanish stopper1883 gurgeon-stopper1884 pinkwood-tree1884 stopper1884 sloth-tree1885 imbaubaa1893 Spanish cedar1907 amarant1909 Parana pine1916 imbuya1919 mastic-bully1920 banak1921 timbo1924 becuiba1934 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 69 The Purple Hart Tree grows to equal height and magnitude with the [Green Hart Tree]. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. 17 The purple-heart-tree grows sometimes to the height of fourscore feet. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. 24 Wallaba, purple-heart,..and mora, are met with in vast abundance, far and near, towering up in majestic grandeur. 1845 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom (1846) 550 The Purple Heart, a Guiana timber tree of great toughness, whose timber is found invaluable for resisting the shock of artillery discharges,..is the Copaifera pubiflora and bracteata. 1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle vi. i. 200 There were no tall trees, no soaring palms or smooth-stemmed purplehearts. 1978 Post–Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 Dec. 1/4 The indigenous purpleheart and greenheart trees were of such hard wood that the pilgrims ruined their saws trying to clear them. 2. U.S. In form Purple Heart. A decoration awarded for military service: originally, in the revolutionary war, a decoration awarded for meritorious action in general (now historical); in recent use, a decoration awarded to a member of the armed services wounded in action. Also more fully Purple Heart Award.A decoration consisting of a heart-shaped piece of purple cloth (known as the ‘Badge of Military Merit’) was instituted by George Washington in 1782, but later fell into disuse. The present bronze enamelled medal was instituted in 1932. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders Order of St Michael1530 Legion of Honour1802 clasp1813 Iron Cross1813 medal1813 star1844 Victoria Cross1856 V.C.1859 Medal of Honour1861 bar1864 yellow jacket1864 V.D.1901 Croix de Guerre1915 Military Cross1915 C.G.M.1916 Military Medal1916 pip1917 M.M.1918 purple heart1918 Maconochie Cross1919 Maconochie Medal1919 wound-stripe1919 T.D.1924 rooty gong1925 Silver Star1932 Ritterkreuz1940 Africa Star1943 ruptured duck1945 Spam medal1945 screaming eagle1946 1918 Chicago Tribune 20 Jan. c5 While the army was encamped about Newburgh he [sc. George Washington] established the order of military merit known as the Purple Heart. 1930 Washington Post 23 Mar. 17 Restablishment of the ‘Purple Heart’, a military decoration of the Order of Military Merit, established near the close of the American Revolution by Gen. George Washington, is being planned by the War Department. 1932 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 27 Feb. 602/4 Awards of the Purple Heart for acts or service performed prior to Feb. 22, 1932, will be confined to the following persons. 1948 E. E. Cummings Let. 27 Aug. (1969) 185 The hyper~scientific climax of this hero (a prominent killer, holder of Silver Stars & Clusters & Purple Hearts galore)'s experience. 1974 Sumter (S. Carolina) Daily Item 23 Apr. 4 a/4 He is a recipient of the Purple Heart Award and Army Commendation Medal. 1986 New Yorker 28 Apr. 54/3 He returned from the war—having also won the Purple Heart—‘deeply shaken’. 1990 Sky Mag. Apr. 16/1 Paralysed Vietnam vet..returns from the war with a Purple Heart and a broken back. 3. British colloquial. Originally: a tablet of the drug Drinamyl, containing dextroamphetamine and amylobarbitone (in reference to its colour and shape). Later also: a tablet of any amphetamine. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > stimulant drug(s) > specific stimulant drugs amyl nitrite1881 Methedrine1939 Dexedrine1942 benzylpiperazine1947 dexamphetamine1949 dextro-amphetamine1949 methamphetamine1949 Drinamyl1950 benny1955 dexie1956 purple heart1961 crystal1964 French blue1964 meth1966 speed1967 splash1967 purple1968 crank1969 crystal meth1969 crystal methamphetamine1970 dex1984 ice1989 BZP1997 tik2004 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > stimulant > pills pep pill1917 amphetamine1955 purple heart1961 black bomber1963 black beauty1966 white1967 wake-up1969 wakey-wakey pill1977 wake-up pill1979 1961 Guardian 23 Mar. 3/1 Drinamyl, a Schedule 1 poison known in the trade as ‘purple heart’. 1962 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 21/1 People involved in the investigation had already had ‘purple heart’ tablets prescribed for them by their own doctors. 1971 N. Stacey Who Cares? xvi. 276 They became more responsible, they took more interest in life, they stopped taking purple hearts and they settled down in their homes, their schools and their jobs. 1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 170 ‘Purple hearts’ is slang for speed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1738
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