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Yes, purple is playable

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OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)

"Purple" Definition

noun

Any of a group of colors with a hue between that of violet and red.
Cloth of a color between violet and red, formerly worn as a symbol of royalty or high office.
Imperial power; high rank: born to the purple.
Roman Catholic Church The rank or office of a bishop.
Roman Catholic Church The rank or office of a cardinal.

adjective

Elaborate and ornate: purple prose.
Of the color purple.
Royal or imperial; regal.
Of the color purple.
Highly rhetorical .

verb-transitive

To make or become purple.

verb

To become purple.
To make purple.

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