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For those not familiar with borscht it is reddish-purple in color with beetroot as its main ingredient and is usually consumed as a hot or cold beverage or soup.
Phil Lempert: Move Over Pomegranate, Beet Juice Is About to Take Over Phil Lempert 2012
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The skin turned a dark reddish-purple from his consistent agitation.
365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Instead of hair, her pale head was covered in swollen, reddish-purple growths the size of marbles, which sprouted from her hairline all the way down to the back of her neck.
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For those not familiar with borscht it is reddish-purple in color with beetroot as its main ingredient and is usually consumed as a hot or cold beverage or soup.
Phil Lempert: Move Over Pomegranate, Beet Juice Is About to Take Over Phil Lempert 2012
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Try lemon basil with fish, opal basil which is dark reddish-purple as the finishing touch on a caprese salad, pointy-leafed Thai basil when you want a strong anise flavor—and any and every kind of basil you can get your hands on when dragons are spotted in the neighborhood.
Basil & Friends 2011
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A particularly novel variety, called Lady in Red, has reddish-purple stems while its green leaves feature red veins, which contrast nicely with the red or blue flowers.
Hydrangeas' Fall Flower Show Bart Ziegler 2011
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There was a reddish-purple mark over the old mine that had stained the mesa, and another curious splash of color just to the east.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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A few dizzying flashes came to them in the tumbling, of great reddish-purple splotches and dangling fleshy members, of a constricted opening down which their sphere spun madly.
"Undersea Prisoner" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2010
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A few dizzying flashes came to them in the tumbling, of great reddish-purple splotches and dangling fleshy members, of a constricted opening down which their sphere spun madly.
Archive 2010-03-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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Glancing out now, for instance, they're reddish-purple; in the time it took me to type that, they turned green.
World Fantasy Convention, Day 3 ewillett 2008
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