单词 | tyrian purple |
释义 | > as lemmasTyrian purple 2. Any of various colours ranging in shade between red and violet. (a) A shade of crimson, spec. (also Tyrian purple) the colour of a dye obtained from various gastropod molluscs (cf. senses B. 4, B. 5) and traditionally used for fabric worn by people of imperial or royal rank (cf. sense A. 1a) (now historical). (b) Formerly: †any of various shades of red; cf. purpure n. 2 (obsolete). (c) Now: a colour obtained by mixing red and blue in various proportions, and usually containing also some black or white, or both; esp. a deep rich shade between crimson and violet.The various tints are frequently distinguished by the names of flowers, fruits, etc., in which they occur, as aubergine, pansy, plum-purple; also by special names, as carmine-, pontiff, royal purple, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [noun] purple?a1439 colour-de-roy1531 roy1549 mercury1562 purpleness1852 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 5773 (MED) Adonydes..lay slayn..Whom Venus turned to a ful fressh flour Which was as blood, lich purpil off colour. a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 8 (MED) Muskellis, wherein be fovndene noble margarites of alle-maner colovres, as red, purpulle, Jacinctyne, & prassyne. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. vii. 5 The hayre of thy heade is like the kynges purple folden vp in plates [R.V. tresses]. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Qq3 Not that purple which we now haue..but of the right Tyrian purple, which was neerest to a cullour betwixt our murrey and skarlet. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 131 As the Rose, at the fair appearing of the Morning Sun, displayeth and spreadeth her Purples. 1673 M. Lister Let. 25 Oct. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1975) X. X. 304 The parenchymous juices of ye Roots of red Carrots & Beets, are of as deep a Purple as those contained within ye Parenchyma of ye berries of ligustrum. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 337 The Victor honour'd with a nobler Vest: Where Gold and Purple strive in equal Rows. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. vii. 422 The first Prætor of Rome..was allowed the Prætexta, or Robe edged with Purple. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 347 Their plumage is glossed with a rich purple. 1815 Ld. Byron Destr. Sennacherib i His cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. 1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy did at School xiii. 275 Painted in soft purples and grays. 1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse i. xvii. 163 Her eyes had been going in and out among the curves and shadows of the fruit, among the rich purples of the lowland grapes. 1950 Cape Argus 5 Aug. 7/5 Vygies or sour figs..blossom in a wide range of colours—scarlet, blue, purple, pink or flaming yellow. 1992 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Mar. 61/1 The colour was officially announced as royal purple but is called simply purple in the Gibbons' catalogues. Tyrian purple 4. A purple dye or pigment; spec. (also Tyrian purple) a crimson dye obtained from the hypobranchial gland of various gastropod molluscs found in the Mediterranean (cf. sense B. 5), the principal coloured component of which is dibromoindigo (now historical). Frequently with distinguishing word denoting the source, composition, inventor, etc. aniline, London, mineral, Perkin's, sea, visual purple, etc.: see the first element. purple of Cassius n. [ < the name of Andreas Cassius (d. 1673), German physician and chemist] a purple pigment consisting of a colloidal mixture of metallic gold and tin( iv) oxide. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > purple dye or pigment > [noun] turnsole1375 cork1483 jarecork1483 orchil1483 purple1519 purpurisse1519 archil1551 waycoriant1658 orchilla1703 cudbear1772 purple lake1785 imperial purple1788 mauve?1796 phenicin1823 French purple1830 indigo-purple1838 mauve1859 Perkin's mauve1859 violine1859 mauveine1863 purple of Cassiusc1865 tyroline1867 Paris violet1868 Hofmann violet1869 methyl violet1873 punicin1879 crystal violet1885 chrome violet1892 mineral violet1913 Monastral1936 manganese purple1937 the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > crimson from murex purple1519 sea-purple1855 murexa1897 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 81v Scryueners write with blacke, redde, purple, gren blewe or byce. 1596 J. Davies Orchestra sig. C2 The bashfull bride, Which blusheth like the Indian Iuorie Which is with dip of Tyrian purple died. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 112 in Poems The Purple of the Ancients was taken out of a kind of Shell-fish called Purpura. 1686 W. Cole (title) Purpura Anglicana, being a Discovery of a Shell-fish Found on the Shores of the Severn, in which there is a Vein containing a Juice, giving the delicate and durable Tincture of the Antient, Rich, Tyrian Purple. 1705 tr. Whole Art of Dying 188 The less of these ingredients is used, the blewer and darker will the Dye be the same may be said of Grey Purples and Violets. 1782 W. Nicholson Introd. Nat. Philos. II. 224 A beautiful purple powder, called the purple powder of Cassius, which is of use in enamels.] 1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 312 By recent muriate of tin we have, with a solution of gold, the well known purple of Cassius. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 751 Deep Prussian blue and lake..form a purple of the next degree of excellence. 1880 Academy 20 Nov. 368/3 Carminic acid and Tyrian purple. 1963 J. Osborne Dental Mech. (ed. 5) xxii. 412 ‘Purple of Cassius’ is used to produce the pink gum colour. 1992 Chem. in Brit. 28 341/3 Heating magenta dyestuffs..could give new dyes—such as the phenylated rosanilines, Regina purple..and Bleu de Lyons. < as lemmas |
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