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the color so expensive for centuries that wearing it could get you killed.
means A color between red and blue, traditionally associated with royalty and luxury.
from From Old English 'purpul', an alteration of Latin 'purpura', which named both the color and the sea-snail it came from. The Greeks called it 'porphyra' — the murex shellfish whose mucus yielded a dye so labor-intensive (thousands of snails per gram) that Tyrian purple cost more than its weight in gold, and emperors hoarded it as a sumptuary right.
- royal dye
- Made from thousands of crushed sea snails per gram
- name origin
- Tyrian purple smelled foul during production
- no wavelength
- Brain invents it; pure purple isn't in rainbows
- sumptuary laws
- Romans banned commoners from wearing it
- mauve accident
- First synthetic dye discovered hunting malaria cure
purple heart medal — u.s. military decoration awarded to wounded or killed service members, established 1782
purple loosestrife — invasive wetland plant species across north america with distinctive purple flower spikes
purple martin — largest swallow species in north america, males display iridescent purple plumage