Tyrian

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people.
  • adj. Being of the color called Tyrian purple.
  • n. A native of Tyre.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the ancient city and state of Tyre in Phenicia, on the Mediterranean.
  • Of a purple color characteristic of Tyre.
  • n. A native of Tyre.
    • Word Usage
    "I was wondering at these hanging gardens amid the forest of pink and white marble, red sardonyx, blue-gray, and cream, and black bricks, and green and yellow and tyrian tiles, when the sight of a lansquenet guarding the entrance to a casern reminded me of the promise I had made the officer of the peltasts the night before."
    Equivalent
    tyrian dye   
    Cross Reference
    tyrian cynosure    tyrian purple   
     
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