purplette

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small specialty onion with burgundy skin.
    — Salad onions (try Paris silver skin or purplette), perfect for slicing into a salad, as well as pickling, or baby leeks, great raw, steamed or stir-fried (try King Richard or atal) are ridiculously easy to grow.
  2. A purple-haired person, especially a woman. rare
    — As for Josh Jochim, 11, he’ll try not to be too hyper and excited, especially when Lecoe, his fifth-grade teacher, along with the principal and superintendent all make good on their promise to color their hair purple if the school raised $1,000 for cancer research. […] Josh gave a speech Monday to kick off the schools’ Relay for Life activities, which culminate in today’s relay, but he couldn’t quite get through it. His teacher, Tracy Lecoe, the brunette soon to be a purplette, said the boy is not much of a speechmaker.

词形变化

purplettes plural purplettes plural

词源

词源 1
From purple + -ette (diminutive suffix).
词源 2
From purple + -ette (“a person, especially a woman, with the specified hair color”), after brunette.
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