Definitions
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- adjective of purple tinged with pink
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Examples
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It was as if she was surveying the scene of a patchwork of low juniper bushes interspersed with the dominant colour of pinkish-purple flowers of heather.
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Outside the huge windows the sun was just starting to make itself known, lighting the sky with pinkish-purple hues.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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Outside the huge windows the sun was just starting to make itself known, lighting the sky with pinkish-purple hues.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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It was a single pinkish-purple flower shaped like a trumpet.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008
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I love how the fabric (is it flannel?) in this photo picks up both the blue of the raw berries and the pinkish-purple of the ice cream.
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It was a single pinkish-purple flower shaped like a trumpet.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008
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A flare of blue so quick that it couldn't have been seen unless he'd been looking was the only response, but the pinkish-purple auras faded ... and then vanished.
Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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If you think Dora caters to girls, then this pinkish-purple toy has even been ascribed a gender.
Classic Toys are Being Redesigned into Visual Overload | Thingamababy 2006
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Since he sat there for some time and the bench was very wet, when he rose he left a mottled, oddly natural-looking pinkish-purple stain all over it.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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The wild geranium, for instance, with its pinkish-purple flowers, is common in our woods.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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