Purpureal

Quick meaning: Purpureal is an adjective meaning (literary, poetic) Of a purple colour.

Meaning

(literary, poetic) Of a purple colour.

Example Sentences

But not ere him who summoneth / I first have seen, enwound / With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; [...]

[G]liding thro' his daughter's honour'd ſhades, / The ſmooth Penéus from his glaſſy flood / Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleaſant ſcene?

Above the altar-lace / he mounted a triptych of the Assumption / with coarse, purpureal clouds, a prescient Madonna / drawn from Leonardo's "Our Lady of the Rocks."

Of all that is most beauteous—imaged there / In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, / An ampler ether, a diviner air, / And fields invested with purpureal gleams; [...]

Synonyms for purpureal

Depending on context, synonyms include purple, purpuraceous, purpurate, purpure, purpurine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include purple, gleams, purpural, purpure, purpurous, purpuric.

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