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Purple heart

noun

A United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action. Synonym: Order of the Purple Heart.

A long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative. Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbital, phenobarbitone, sodium thiopental.

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"Purple heart" Quotes from Famous Books

... beautiful, the bird's foot star (Palmipes membranaceus), which you may see crawling by its thousand sucking-feet in the Crystal Palace tanks, a pentagonal webbed bird's foot, of scarlet and orange shagreen. With him, most probably, will be a specimen of the great purple heart-urchin (Spatangus purpureus), clothed in pale lilac horny spines, and other Echinoderms, for which you must consult Forbes's "British Star-fishes:" but perhaps the species among them which will interest you most, will be the common brittle-star (Ophiocoma ...

— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley

... to say a word about two other Americans who show us how. Congressman Frank Tejeda was buried yesterday, a proud American whose family came from Mexico. He was only 51 years old. He was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart fighting for his country in Vietnam. And he went on to serve Texas and America fighting for our ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

Words linked to "Purple heart" : palm, barbiturate, medal, laurel wreath, medallion, decoration, sodium thiopental, ribbon, Order of the Purple Heart