Tyrian
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Adjective
[edit]Tyrian (comparative more Tyrian, superlative most Tyrian)
- From or relating to Tyre, Lebanon.
- Having a purple colour produced by the dye Tyrian purple.
- 1747, Thomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes:
- Still had she gazed; but 'midst the tide
Two angel forms were seen to glide,
The Genii of the stream;
Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue
Thro' richest purple to the view
Betrayed a golden gleam.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- It was no longer torture-torn and hateful, as I had seen it when she was cursing her dead rival by the leaping flames, no longer icily terrible as in the judgment-hall, no longer rich, and sombre, and splendid, like a Tyrian cloth, as in the dwellings of the dead.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 151:
- 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.
Derived terms
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[edit]relating to Tyre
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Noun
[edit]Tyrian (plural Tyrians)
- Person from Tyre.
Translations
[edit]person from Tyre