Definitions
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- adjective of red tinged with purple
- noun a red with a tinge of purple
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Examples
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The monarch's profile is in sage green against a background of purplish-red trees and men rowing a boat on peaceful waters.
Still in Love With Stamps Margaret Studer 2011
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The paramedics checked for lividity—the livor mortis that occurs when the heart stops beating and blood sinks to the lowest part of the body, eventually leaving fixed purplish-red stains or striated marks there.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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Last Tuesday, there was a strange little purplish-red fruit that Mrs. Hiller called a pluot.
WILLOWOOD Cecilia Galante 2010
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His face turned a terrible purplish-red and he gripped my shoulders with bruising force to shout directly into my face, I forbid it!
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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The paramedics checked for lividity—the livor mortis that occurs when the heart stops beating and blood sinks to the lowest part of the body, eventually leaving fixed purplish-red stains or striated marks there.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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Last Tuesday, there was a strange little purplish-red fruit that Mrs. Hiller called a pluot.
WILLOWOOD Cecilia Galante 2010
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The paramedics checked for lividity—the livor mortis that occurs when the heart stops beating and blood sinks to the lowest part of the body, eventually leaving fixed purplish-red stains or striated marks there.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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My hair turns a strange purplish-red color, like a badly mixed dye.
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His face turned a terrible purplish-red and he gripped my shoulders with bruising force to shout directly into my face, I forbid it!
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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His face turned a terrible purplish-red and he gripped my shoulders with bruising force to shout directly into my face, I forbid it!
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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