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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Purpure  \Pur"pure\,  n.  [L.  purpura  purple.  See  {Purple}.]  (Her.) 
  Purple,  --  represented  in  engraving  by  diagonal  lines 
  declining  from  the  right  top  to  the  left  base  of  the 
  escutcheon  (or  from  sinister  chief  to  dexter  base). 

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