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empurpled


  • v  color purple
  • s  excessively elaborate or showily expressed
    a writer of empurpled literature

  • But a false romanticism had filtered into the empurpled reports of Eastern journalists.
  • To Versailles (150 years ago) swarmed empurpled princelings, intent on an implicit mission of state.
  • As her cells took up the liquor, courage spouted through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face.
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  • Joan Acocella in Christian Science Monitor
    As Joan Acocella wrote, "The ballet we know as 'Romeo and Juliet,' which had its first incarnation in 1938, is a thundering, romantic business.......... It is this empurpled quality, firmly supported by the Prokofiev score, which Martins has...

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