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1398 (as colour) O.E. 'purpul', dissimilation (first recorded in Northumbrian, in Lindisfarne gospel) from purpure "purple garment," purpuren "purple," from Latin purpura "purple-dyed cloak, purple dye," also "shellfish from which purple was made," from Gk. porphyra of Semitic origin, originally the name for the shellfish (murex) from which it was obtained.

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