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  • adjective Resembling lilac, especially in colour.

Etymologies

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lilac +‎ -y

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Examples

  • But these catacombs, emptiness, desolation and that old brown lilacky, crumbly Roman earth, in which no plough need move nor spade, -- that _terriccio_, that pot-mould of the past.

    The Spirit of Rome Vernon Lee 1895

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