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purpurine

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Searchable Lemmata: purprin (AF), purprine (AF), purprin (ME), purpureayn (OScots), purpurine (MdE).
Alternate Forms: purperyn.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Dye; dark blue or purplish colour; also (attributively) of purple or crimson; the heraldic colour purpure; (rare in MdE). As a substantive, used to refer to a dark purple or crimson cloth or garment (as in the AF example).(ante 1200 still in current use)
1. Candace fu bele … Estroit estoit lacee en un[e] purprine(as a substantive) [AND Rom Chev ANTS (7752) 1175/1200]
2. S'il ui reluist en sa purprine, Ne set se demein iert vermine Biblical/Hagiographic. [AND S Cath (1647) ante 1175/1200]
3. O un lioun rampant purprin [MED Arms in Brault Early Blazon (363) 1300]
4. A purprin [Frf: purpure] clath þai on him [Christ] kest ...(work: a1325) [MED Cursor ((Vsp A.3) 16201) ante 1400]
5. Sua right purprin [Trin-C: purpre] heu es nane, Þis ilk light apon vs schane [MED Cursor ((Göt Theol 107) 17867) ante 1400]
6. Othire sertis wee see þat solace oure hertis: First, þe faire firmament fichid full of sterres ... Þe playne purperyn see full of prode fischis Heroic, Historic, Romance. (work: a1400?) [MED Wars Alex. ((Ashm 44) 4375) circa 1450]
c.f.: purple, purpure
AF, ME, MdE; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, AF; Old French purprin and purpurayn (of a purple colour); Old French porprin (heraldic colour); ultimately from L purpura; cf. OE pupur, purpuren.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog:
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