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"... They weaved verie much Fine Purple that was dide in Tyre, ..."
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Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purple is
"... They weaved verie much Fine Purple that was dide in Tyre, ..."
"And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,"
"There is the sea—shall any stanch it up?— Still breeding, for its worth of silver weight, Abundant stain, freshly renewable, For purpling robes withal: nay, Heaven be praised, The house, my lord, affords us plenty such; ’Tis not acquainted yet with penury. I had vowed the trampling of a thousand robes, Had the oracles enjoined it when I sought Means for recovery of a life so precious!"
"Πορφυρογέννητος, Porphyrogénnētos"
"And then beneath a shapely chin Let every Grace fly out and in About a marble throat; the rest Be in a chastened purple drest, But let her flesh peep here and there The lines of beauty to declare."
"But for the Diva’s use bestrewn is the genial bedstead, Hidden in midmost stead, and its polisht framework of Indian Tusk underlies its cloth empurpled by juice of the dye-shell."
"In grave beginnings, and great things profest You have oft-times, that may out-shine the rest, A purple piece, or two stitchd in: ..."
"And then is it thought to have a most commendable and excellent die, when it is as deepe a red as bloud that is cold and setled, blackish at the first sight, but looke betweene you and the light, it carieth a bright and shining lustre. And hereupon it is, that Homer calleth bloud, Purple."
"That purple-linèd palace of sweet sin,"
"A vile Conceit in pompous words express’d Is like a clown in regal purple dress’d:"
"O for a beaker full of the warm South! Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stainèd mouth;"
"Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple;"