ˈpurple-ˈred
A. adj. Red inclining to or tinged with purple. B. n. A purple-red colour.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens ii. lxiv. 230 Wilde Tyme. The floures..most commonly of a purple red colour. 1624 Gataker Transubst. 67 The people are all died purplered in it with Christs blood. 1832 G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 271 Imparting to glass almost exquisite purple-red colour resembling the ruby. 1879 O. N. Rood Chromatics xiv. 214 Every kind of pure red, from purple-red to orange-red. |