purple-blue

If the sun caught those black marks just right, you could see a flash of purple-blue, which is apparently how the dogs got their name.

How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000

In the east the towering bulk of the storm was a sulky purple-blue the shade of new denim, but in the west the sky was opening, showing a tender blue like the lining of an antique Chinese robe.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The dusty orange sky faded to the cool purple-blue of dusk.

Fish Story 2009

I'm not sure of the species on this eryngium, but I was completely blown away by its shining purple-blue color.

Vignettes from the K-State Gardens « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

Her hands were stained that purple-blue, and her lips were ringed black-blue, and a once-plump blueberry teetered on her tongue, staining her teeth as gray as a November sky.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

Her hands were stained that purple-blue, and her lips were ringed black-blue, and a once-plump blueberry teetered on her tongue, staining her teeth as gray as a November sky.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

In the east the towering bulk of the storm was a sulky purple-blue the shade of new denim, but in the west the sky was opening, showing a tender blue like the lining of an antique Chinese robe.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Her hands were stained that purple-blue, and her lips were ringed black-blue, and a once-plump blueberry teetered on her tongue, staining her teeth as gray as a November sky.

Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

In the east the towering bulk of the storm was a sulky purple-blue the shade of new denim, but in the west the sky was opening, showing a tender blue like the lining of an antique Chinese robe.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

In the east the towering bulk of the storm was a sulky purple-blue the shade of new denim, but in the west the sky was opening, showing a tender blue like the lining of an antique Chinese robe.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011