Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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Purple beauty

The word 'purple' comes from the Old English word purpul which derives from the Latin purpura, in turn from the Greek πορφύρα (porphura),[6] name of the Tyrian purple dye manufactured in classical antiquity from a mucus secreted by the spiny dye-murex snail.[7][8]

The first recorded use of the word 'purple' in English was in the year A.D. 975.
In human color psychology, purple is also associated with royalty and nobility (stemming from classical antiquity when Tyrian Purple was only affordable to the elites).

Purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue.
Purple
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