PURPLED Synonyms

• a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color

• a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines

• red table wine from the Burgundy region of France (or any similar wine made elsewhere)

• any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated

• a pale purple color

• of a pale purple color

• any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers

• of a pale purple color

• a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

• a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta

• of deep purplish red

• a moderate purple

• of a pale to moderate greyish violet color

• chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers

• commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers

• small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked

• edible marine gastropod

• any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

• any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit

• a highly desirable position or assignment

• exactly

• completely; used as intensifiers

• any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers

• a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

• of a color intermediate between red and blue

• fermented juice (of grapes especially)

• a red as dark as red wine

• drink wine

• treat to wine