Purple (government) definition

(1) Of a color intermediate between red and blue

(2) Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

"Golden age of imperial splendor"

"Purple tyrant"

"Regal attire"

"Treated with royal acclaim"

"The royal carriage of a stag's head"

(3) Excessively elaborate or showily expressed

"A writer of empurpled literature"

"Many purple passages"

"Speech embellished with classical quotations"

"An over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

(4) A purple color or pigment

(5) Of imperial status

"He was born to the purple"

(6) Color purple

(7) Become purple