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perse
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A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.
Other meanings
2. noun
A cloth of this colour.
3. adjective
Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.
4. proper noun
An Oceanid, (one of the three thousand daughters of the Titans' Oceanus and Tethys), and the wife of the sun god, Helios, by whom she is the mother of Aeetes, Perses, Pasiphae, and Circe. One of her many sisters is Amphitrite, (the wife of Poseidon). Perse is also closely identified with Hecate.
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