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- adjective Somewhat purple.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat purple.
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- adjective Somewhat
purple in colour/color.
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- adjective of a color intermediate between red and blue
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the photos on this page show, this digital camera shows vividly in purplish-white the IR emitter of a TV remote control.
Beyond the visible Ray Girvan 2005
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Furthermore, his case, though written in purplish prose, is largely correct.
New & Noteworthy 2004
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Furthermore, his case, though written in purplish prose, is largely correct.
New & Noteworthy 2004
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Bleu : little papers ground out in purplish script on foolscap, and adorned with comic-sketches and a wealth of local humour.
Fighting France 1915
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So, Hall County has a good chance of turning purplish, which is amazing.
McCain Outspending Obama By Hundreds Of Thousands In Many Core Battleground States 2009
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You can collect the olives when they are green turning a little purplish, that is early in the season, or you can collect them later when they are already ripe, so there isn't really a particular time when you can collect them.
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It also differs in the depth of bloom-colour; some of its flowers may be described as purplish-green and others as greenish-purple, slaty and dove-coloured; others have a tinge of red more visible.
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The results of this bath can best be described as purplish in color.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 Various
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Beyond its level were red-brown cliffs, dull orange bald-rock, yellow sand, leading away to blend into a kind of purplish brown with blue clouds of mountains for background. (p. 115, Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge)
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Beyond were red-brown cliffs, dull orange bald rock, and yellow sand, leading away to blend into a kind of purplish brown with hazy blue mountains for background. (p. 63, Savage Dream by Cassie Edwards)
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Latest with Plagiarism Scandal 2008
yarb commented on the word purplish
Citation on spew.
July 4, 2008
yarb commented on the word purplish
Almost directly in front of him, but far off, the gilded dome of the court-house at Bonneville was glinting radiant in the first rays of the sun, while a few miles distant, toward the north, the venerable campanile of the Mission San Juan stood silhouetted in purplish black against the flaming east.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 2
August 26, 2008