Purple (Promotion to the)
.Promotion to the rank of cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.
“Dr. Moran’s promotion to the purple is certain.”—Newspaper paragraph.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.