Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)purple, the purple(Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
Verbs
Adjectives
(s)empurpled, over-embellished, purpleexcessively elaborate or showily expressed“a writer of empurpled literature”, “many purple passages”, “an over-embellished story of the fish that got away”