Definitions for tyrian purple
tyr·i·an pur·ple

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1. Tyrian purplenoun

   a red-purple to deep purple dye obtained from snails or made synthetically

2. Tyrian purplenoun

   a vivid purplish-red color

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1. Tyrian purplenoun

   A deep purple dyestuff obtained from the bodies of mollusks of the genus Murex

2. Tyrian purpleadjective

   Of a deep purple colour, tinted with red, like that of the dye.

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1. tyrian purple

   Tyrian Purple, also known as royal purple, is a reddish-purple natural dye, which is secreted by certain species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae. It was first produced by the ancient Phoenicians as early as 1570 BC. Used in textiles, the dye was extremely expensive and reserved for the garments of the nobility or royalty, giving it the name 'royal purple'.

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1. Tyrian purple

   Tyrian purple, also known as royal purple, imperial purple or imperial dye, is a reddish-purple natural dye, which is a secretion produced by certain species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae, a type of rock snail by the name Murex. This dye was possibly first used by the ancient Phoenicians as early as 1600 BC. The dye was greatly prized in antiquity because the colour did not easily fade, but instead became brighter with weathering and sunlight. Tyrian purple was expensive: the 4th-century-BC historian Theopompus reported, "Purple for dyes fetched its weight in silver at Colophon" in Asia Minor. The expense meant that purple-dyed textiles became status symbols, and early sumptuary laws restricted their uses. The production of Tyrian purple was tightly controlled in Byzantium and was subsidized by the imperial court, which restricted its use for the colouring of imperial silks, so that a child born to a reigning emperor was porphyrogenitos, "born in the purple", although this term may also refer to the fact that the imperial birthing apartment was walled in the purple-red rock known as porphyry. The dye substance comprises a mucous secretion from the hypobranchial gland of one of several medium-sized predatory sea snails that are found in the eastern Mediterranean. These are the marine gastropods Bolinus brandaris the spiny dyemurex, the banded dye-murex Hexaplex trunculus, and the rock-shell Stramonita haemastoma. The dye is an organic compound of bromine, a class of compounds often found in algae and some other sea life, but much more rarely in the biology of land animals.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tyrian purple in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tyrian purple in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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