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A single pound of dye cost three pounds of gold, which is the equivalent of fifty six thousand dollars today. So since the sheer price of purple was so astronomically high, no one not even the richest nations could afford to have purple on their flag.
Original Video:
Why Don't Country Flags Use The Color Purple?
Key Vocabulary
3. astronomically
astronomically
[ˌæstrəˈnɒmɪkəli] (adv.)
enormously
[ɪˈnɔːməsli] (adv.)
tremendously
[trɪˈmendəsli] (adv.)
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