Usually means: Purple color in heraldic context.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. purpure: Merriam-Webster
  2. purpure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purpure: Collins English Dictionary
  4. purpure: Wordnik
  5. purpure: Wiktionary
  6. purpure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. purpure: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Purpure: Dictionary.com
  9. Purpure (heraldry), Purpure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Purpure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. purpure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Purpure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. purpure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. Purpure [purple]: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. purpure: FreeDictionary.org
  16. purpure: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. purpure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. purpure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purpure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purpure: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (purpure)

noun:  (heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.
adjective:  (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour purple.

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