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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tyr·i·an a.
 1. Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people.
 2. Being of the color called Tyrian purple.
    The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye.   --Pope.
 Tyrian purple, or Tyrian dye, a celebrated purple dye prepared in ancient Tyre from several mollusks, especially Ianthina, Murex, and Purpura. See the Note under Purple, n., 1, and Purple of mollusca, under Purple, n.