Meanings of wear purple in English

The fatted calf would be killed, and I should wear purple yet.

It gives them certain privileges, and the right to wear purple like a bishop.

Her name starts with an A, I think, and she likes to wear purple.

There are very few women who can wear purple.

Shall our children, and we ourselves, wear purple, and shall it be interdicted to our wives?

Outer Court members wear green stoles, clerical dedicants wear white stoles, and clergy wear purple stoles.

She must be rich, to wear purple silk and old lace and lovely rings at this hour.

They wear purple and crimson robes and hats, in memory of the old Roman purple of the emperors.

During another show, Beck had workers in the Fox control room wear purple SEIU shirts, posing as goons.

Vivian realised that nobody in 1939 was likely to wear purple and yellow stripes that moved about all the time.

It seemed to her the very sting of poverty, just then, that one must wear purple dresses and blue bonnets.

Initiated clergy wear purple stoles, honorary clergy members wear lavender stoles, dedicants wear white stoles, and Outer Court members wear green stoles.

They have asked that people wear purple ribbons in protest at the murders and as a sign of their desire to work together.

And when you, the husband, may wear purple in your great coat, will you not suffer your wife to have a purple mantle?

Julia's was cream satin and gold embroidery and she wore purple orchids.

An Army bomb technician, wearing purple gloves, takes the bombs' dimensions.