Rhymes with Orange is the worst comic
I’d be mair vauntie o’ my hap,
Douce hingin’ owre my curple,
Than ony ermine ever lap,
Or proud imperial purple.
– Robert Burns
‘Nothing rhymes with purple’– another Dark Age superstition dies in the harsh glare of the Natural Philosophy. The fact that this includes the word ‘ermine’ is just a bonus.
[Sc., corruption of crupper] (rhymes with purple, cf. hirple) 1) the hind-quarters or rump of a horse 2) transf. the rump, posterior