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the color of liquid squeezed from a snail to use for dying cloth
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Purple
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Blue
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Red
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Green
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Purple was expensive, because purple dye came from snails. The video above, by CreatureCast, recounts the story of Rome’s vaunted Tyrian purple, and the color’s close link with the marine snail Bolinus brandaris. The New York Times: To make Tyrian purple, marine snails were collected by the thousands.
Detailed explanation-2: -Created from the desiccated glands of sea snails, the colour purple has nevertheless come to define royalty.
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