| 单词 | purple-born |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple-born purple-born n. and adj. (a) adj.Of, relating to, or designating a person who is ‘born to the purple’ (see sense B. 1d); (b) n.(with the) such a person (rare). ΚΠ 1820 J. H. Wiffen Julia Alpinula 164 I heard all day the shrilling horn proclaim The captive's freedom, and the monarch's shame, And smiled to think, that I..Could with such dread the purple-born assault! 1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xl. 317 Lady Glencora and Alice were sitting up-stairs with the small, purple-born one in their presence. 1952 N. Mitchison Trav. Light ii. i. 60 In the innermost hall was the Purple-born, and on orders of the Purple-born was all done. 1999 N. Garland Byzantine Empresses viii. 142 Psellos here intends us to believe that Basil had Zoe trained for her position as purple-born princess and possible heir of the empire. < as lemmas |
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