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empurpled

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em·pur·ple  (m-pûrpl)
tr. & intr.v. em·pur·pled, em·pur·pling, em·pur·ples
To make or become purple.
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Adj.1.empurpled - excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
over-embellished, purple
rhetorical - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"


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With thy dear name as text, though bidden by thee, I can not write-I can not speak or think-- Alas, I can not feel; for 'tis not feeling, This standing motionless upon the golden Threshold of the wide-open gate of dreams, Gazing, entranced, adown the gorgeous vista, And thrilling as I see, upon the right, Upon the left, and all the way along, Amid empurpled vapors, far away To where the prospect terminates-thee only!
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The mildness of the evening, the sea breezes, so dear to contemplative minds, setting in from the east and blowing in delicious gusts; then, in the distance, the black outline of the yacht with its rigging traced upon the empurpled background of the sky -- while, dotting the horizon, might be seen, here and there, vessels with their trimmed sails, like the wings of a seagull about to plunge; such a spectacle indeed well merited admiration.
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Magnificent weather, a sunrise that empurpled all the landscape, displayed the river in all its limpid serenity.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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