TYRIAN PURPLE


Meaning of TYRIAN PURPLE in English

[Tyr.i.an purple] n [Tyre, maritime city of ancient Phoenicia] (ca. 1586): a crimson or purple dye that is related to indigo, obtained by the ancient Greeks and Romans from gastropod mollusks, and now made synthetically

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