purple
adj.— «The Pentagon nickname for the new breed is “purple-suiter,” indicating an officer wears no particular uniform’s bias.» —“Defense News Policy Passes On Unmourned” Los Angeles Times July 16, 1967. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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