Definitions
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- adjective of dark purple tinted with brown
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Examples
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In the same plate of set B, it is the orange-brown and orange, and the brown-purple and purple-brown that appear indistinguishable.
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About women's fashions. . . well, I've admired several pairs of shoes, and the totally awesome brown-purple haircolor that one woman was rocking.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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About women's fashions. . . well, I've admired several pairs of shoes, and the totally awesome brown-purple haircolor that one woman was rocking.
Archive 2007-06-01 Flavia 2007
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Brown-yellow iron oxide, green copper oxide, and brown-purple manganese oxide were applied to the engraved decorations with thick strokes and can be combined on the same vase.
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The sands are purpled silver, and bare, as bare as the dark brown-purple of the mud flats that stretch where there should be marshes.
The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987
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A magnificent, brown-purple buckler he bore, [3] with five wheels of gold on it, [3] with a rim of pure white silver around it.
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Flowers in a ring about the top of the stem, length 1 in., the tube enveloped in long, black, twisted hairs; sepals brown-purple; petals narrow, sharp-pointed, purple-rose coloured; stamens white and yellow; stigma rose-coloured.
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And then at regular intervals out of that distant brown-purple jumble of thickets against the snow came two more shots.
The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907
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Then in the east the peaks and ridges glowed with living rose, incandescent like immortal flowers against a brown-purple sky, a miracle, whilst down below the world was
Women in Love 1907
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He started back with a hoarse exclamation, and I saw the brown-purple blood gather in a swift bead, and run trickling.
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