tyrian

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Of or pertaining to the ancient city and state of Tyre in Phenicia, on the Mediterranean.
Of a purple color characteristic of Tyre.
noun A native of Tyre.

noun A native of Tyre.
adjective Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people.
adjective Being of the color called Tyrian purple.
adjective a celebrated purple dye prepared in ancient Tyre from several mollusks, especially Ianthina, Murex, and Purpura. See the Note under Purple, n., 1, and Purple of mollusca, under Purple, n.

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One recommended the Chowder Pot; we were on our way there when we happened upon a man robed in tyrian and green, who stood upon an inverted tub addressing an audience of a hundred or so:

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980