I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Purple Heart
sb's face is dark/red/purple with rage
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His face went purple with rage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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In species with variegated leaves the dorsal side is olive brown, light to dark red or deep purple .
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The color of the body is a deep blue to purple and that of the head a bright orange-yellow.
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Into this silence, Cherry was singing: When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls.
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His eyes seemed bruised around the rims, deep purple .
■ VERB
turn
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These markers turn purple four hours ahead of menstruation, giving the wearer plenty of notice.
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Twenty seconds after that, his cheeks started to bulge and his face began to turn purple .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Amid all the purple , there was cardinal and gold, spilling from guts and pouring from hearts.
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Her hair is wild black grass, diluted to purple across her brow.
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I read the few sentences printed in purple on the leaf of pale yellow paper.
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Later something else purple takes on an even deeper significance.
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One year after his discovery, the flamboyant Empress Eugenie decided that purple would be the colour for the season.
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There is a huge range of colours, from an almost black purple , through red, orange, yellow and white.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A tall black-haired woman in a purple robe opened it.
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Above them, the sky is purple with twilight.
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Barney Orlansky was purple and gold from head to toe -- hat, shirt and high-top shoes in Lakers colors.
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It was a shabby army-surplus shoulder-bag which some one had painstakingly embroidered with purple stars.
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On the live Bishop the silver pectoral cross rose and fell on the purple cassock.
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The air hostesses on the flight to Bangkok wear pink and purple sarongs with gold borders, western eye-makeup, smiles.
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Their heads were the only two not covered with purple shrouds, Blackbourne said.