brownish-purple

She turned to face a woman holding a shopping bag, with impeccably styled long, brown curly hair and a scooped-neck tank top in a dark brownish-purple, like the purple in a sunset.

Loser/Queen Jodi Lynn Anderson 2010

My mother and father, brownish-purple in hue, were with me as I waved banners for a President Elect Obama.

An Inauguration Invitation 2009

It all started Saturday while I was working away in the kitchen, when suddenly something that looked like a piece of brownish-purple yarn started floating in front of my face.

Please Comment: This Reader Survey is Floating in Front of My Eyes Kalyn Denny 2007

Despite my assistant's and my own efforts to turn and move the patient several times a Day, by the day we carried him from the dying Erebus, Hoar was covered with bedsores that had become brownish-purple ulcers that never ceased Suppurating.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

It all started Saturday while I was working away in the kitchen, when suddenly something that looked like a piece of brownish-purple yarn started floating in front of my face.

Archive 2007-02-01 Kalyn Denny 2007

Maple trees blazed fiery red and then began to lose their leaves as the mountains slowly turned brownish-purple except for patches of evergreens.

Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

It provided a murky, brownish-purple environment which was inhabited by a flapping, aquatic-looking shape.

The Grand Wheel Bayley, Barrington J. 1977

The spathes are oblong acute or acuminate, convolute at the base, brownish-purple, striped longitudinally with narrow whitish bands.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various

It grows rather large in size, is covered with a smooth brownish-purple skin, and is made up of material that is close and firm in texture and creamy white in color.

Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables

Before gooseberries are ripe they are light green in color and rather sour in taste, but as they ripen the amount of acid they contain decreases, so that they become sweet in flavor and change to brownish-purple.

Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals