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unpurple en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + purple.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, rare) Not purple, not having purple as its color.
   • Befuddled, Edell looked to see other Keshiri dancing onto the streets, dressed in black with their faces painted in a variety of unpurple hues. 2012, John Jackson Miller, Lost Tribe of the Sith: Star Wars Legends: The Collected Stories, →ISBN:
   • He used his unpurple arm to pull his purple arm around my shoulder. 2014, Megan Jean Sovern, The Meaning of Maggie, →ISBN, page 113:
2. (not-comparable, of writing, rare) Not ornate; not being purple prose or poetry.
   • Subsequently Cooper became press agent for the Tammen-Bonfils circus and acquired the sawdust lore which he utilized effectively in a lean, hard-hitting, entirely unpurple style for many of his popular magazine stories. 1959, Robert L. Perkin, The First Hundred Years: An Informal History of Denver:
   • Thus, in his most recent report to the President, Charles E. Wilson (whose prose is probably quite unpurple when left alone) manages in the first two sentences to allude to "America's military might," "a mighty America," […] 1952, The Reporter, volume 6, page 35:
   • […] is as unpurple prose as can be found anywhere. 1976, James R. Scrimgeour, Sean O'Casey, page 46:

unpurple en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + purple.

Meanings

1. To (cause to) cease to be purple.
   • As some clown drunk with fumes of trodden wine, a. 1895, John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley), The Death of Phaethon, in The Collected Poems of Lord De Tabley (1903), page 396

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