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Non-tradables (finance)

Goods and Services produced and consumed domestically that are not close substitutes to import or export goods and Services.

purple adjective & noun. OE.
[Reduced and dissimilated late Northumbrian form of purpuran oblique case of PURPURE from Latin purpura (whence also Old High German purpura (German Purpur), Old Norse purpuri, Gothic paurpaura), from Greek porphura (molluscs that yielded) a crimson dye, cloth dyed with this. For the change of r to l cf. MARBLE noun, TURTLE noun1.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to the costly fabric traditionally worn by a person of imperial, royal, etc., rank, esp. an emperor or senior magistrate of ancient Rome (with ref. to the distinguishing colour of the fabric from the dye originally used: see sense B.1 below). OE.
b. Of a person: wearing or entitled to wear such fabric; of imperial or royal rank. poet. rare. M17.
a. Of the colour purple, esp. of a deep rich shade between crimson and violet. LME.
S. Bellow The purple mulberries have a better flavour. P. Carey The Bishop's face became as purple as his vest.
b. Of the colour of blood; bloodstained. poet. L16.
T. Gray Where he points his purple spear, Hasty, hasty Rout is there.
fig. Brilliant, striking; splendid, rich; esp. (of literary composition) elaborate, ornate; overwritten. L16.
M. Meyer Couched in hideous purple prose.
Special collocations: purple airway colloq. a route reserved for an aircraft on which a member of royalty is flying. purple amaranth: see AMARANTH 1. purple bacterium any of various bacteria of the suborder Rhodospirillineae, and of similar groups, which contain a purple photoactive pigment. purple copper (ore) Mineralogy = BORNITE. purple emperor a large Eurasian nymphalid butterfly, Apatura iris, the male of which has mainly black wings with purple iridescence. purple fever = any of various fevers characterized by purplish cutaneous eruptions, esp. purpura. purple finch a common N. American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, the male of which is mainly rose red. purple-fish = sense B.4 above. purple gallinule (a) a large Old World rail, Porphyrio porphyrio, having mainly blue plumage and red bill and legs; (b) a similar but smaller American bird, Porphyrula martinica, with more iridescent plumage and yellow legs. purple gland the gland in some gastropods which yields a purple dye. purple grackle the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula. purple haze slang the drug LSD. purpleheart any of several large leguminous tropical American trees of the genus Peltogyne, esp. P. paniculata; the dark purplish-brown timber of such a tree, used for furniture. purple heart (a) US (with cap. initials) a decoration awarded to a member of the armed Services wounded in action; (b) colloq. (usu. in pl.) a tablet of the stimulant drug Drinamyl, so named because of its shape and colour. purple heron a slender Old World heron, Ardea purpurea, having a chestnut-coloured neck and breast. purple lake a purple pigment. purple laver: see LAVER noun1 2. purple LOOSESTRIFE. purple martin a large American martin, Progne subis, having mainly purplish-blue plumage. purple membrane a membrane containing photoactive pigments found within the cell membrane of the bacterium Halobacterium salinarium. purple moor-grass: see MOOR noun1. purple osier a Eurasian willow, Salix purpurea, used in basketry, with glaucous leaves and often purple twigs. purple passage = purple patch (a) below. purple patch (a) an elaborate, ornate, or overwritten passage in a literary composition; (b) Austral. slang a run of good luck or Success. purple sandpiper a small northern and subarctic wader, Calidris maritima, with very dark upperparts in winter. purple sea urchin, purple urchin a small echinoid, Psammechinus miliaris, found on rocky shores of the N. Atlantic. purple-shell (a) = sense B.4 above; (b) = violet snail s.v. VIOLET adjective. purple swamphen = purple gallinule above. purple urchin: see purple sea urchin above. purple waterhen = purple gallinule above. purple wreath a liana of the W. Indies and tropical America, Petrea volubilis, of the vervain family, with long sprays of purple or blue flowers. purple zone = purple airway above.
b. noun.
Orig. (now Hist.), a shade of crimson (more fully Tyrian purple), the colour of a dye obtained from various gastropod molluscs (see sense 1b below) and traditionally used for fabric worn by people of imperial, royal, etc., rank (see sense A.1 above); formerly also more widely, any of various shades of red. Now, a colour intermediate between red and blue, esp. a deep rich shade between crimson and violet. LME.
b. The dye obtained from the secretion of the hypobranchial gland of various gastropod molluscs esp. of the genera Murex, Nucella, and Thais; gen. any purple pigment. M17.
a. Purple cloth or clothing, a purple robe or garment, spec. as worn by a person of imperial, royal, etc., rank. Also, the position or authority of a person of imperial, royal, etc., rank or office. LME.
b. The scarlet official dress of a cardinal; the rank or office of a cardinal. L17.
In pl. (treated as sing.).
a. Any of various diseases characterized by an eruption of purplish pustules; esp. = PURPURA 1. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
b. A form of cockle in wheat. E19.
c. Veterinary Medicine. Swine fever. L19.
Any of the molluscs which yielded Tyrian purple (see sense B.1b above), or their allies. Now esp. the dog-whelk Nucella (Thais) lapillus. L16.
A purple flower. Earliest in long purples s.v. LONG adjective1. poet. E17.
= purple heart (b) above. Also, the drug LSD. slang. M20.
Obscene or indecent Writing (rare); elaborate or ornate written material, overwriting. colloq. M20.
Phrases: born in the purple born into an imperial or royal reigning family; belonging to the highest or most privileged rank of an organization. LONDON purple. long purples: see LONG adjective1. mineral purple: see MINERAL adjective. Perkin's purple: see PERKIN 1. purple of CASSIUS. Tyrian purple: see sense B.1 above. visual purple: see VISUAL adjective. wear the purple: see WEAR verb1.
purpleness noun E20.
purplish adjective somewhat purple M16.
purply adjective of a purple colour or tint; purplish: E18.

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