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purple triangles

purple triangles is the plural of purple triangle.

Meaning of purple triangle

Noun

purple triangle (plural purple triangles)

  1. (historical, rare) A Jehovah's Witness in Nazi Germany.
    • Survivor Max Liebster recalls that the SS there isolated the Witnesses and declared their barracks off limits to other prisoners. In Melk, Polish survivor Joseph Kempler says he saw ‘a camp within a camp’ and was told that the SS kept the ‘purple triangles’ in it, dangerous prisoners because they...2004, M. James Penton, quoting Jolene Chu, “Purple Triangles: A Story of Spiritual Resistance”, in Judaism Today, Spring 1999, issue 12, →ISSN, pages 15–19, quoted in “Evaluating the Arguments and...

Questions about purple triangles

What is purple triangles the plural of?
Purple triangles is the plural of purple triangle.

Words near purple triangles in the dictionary

  1. purple teeth
  2. purple three-awn grass
  3. purple toe syndrome
  4. purple tooth
  5. purple triangle
  6. purple triangles
  7. purple urine bag syndrome
  8. purple velvet plant
  9. purple velvet plants
  10. purple vetch
  11. purple wax bean

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