noun
Meaning 1
A small specialty onion with burgundy skin.
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Standard Lemma guide
purplette
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noun
Meaning 2
A purple-haired person, especially a woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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History
Etymology
From purple + -ette (diminutive suffix).
From purple + -ette (“a person, especially a woman, with the specified hair color”), after brunette.