We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Purpurit, Purpourit, Purperit, -(e)d, ppl. adj. [ME and e.m.E. purprid (Wyclif), purpurede (1398), purpurde (1557), f. Purpur(e n. and -it.] Coloured or dyed purple; clad in purple or crimson. —1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 68.
Ane bybill … coverit with fyne purpourit veluot
1596 Montgomery Mem. II 235.
Sleves … of purperit sating
1602 Colville Paraenese 110.
That Rome … vas Babylon, the purpurit harlot
Ib. 111.
After he had callit Rome … a purpurd hoor
1678 Life Sharp in Misc. Scot. II 89.
His grace, with his purpured lacquays running at his coach

33835

dost