rose-purple

The moorland country about it is very beautiful, but especially when the heather and furze are in flower together, and far and wide stretches a most royal display of rose-purple and gold.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

The rose-purple monkey-flower is very common and conspicuous in the lower meadows, along the streams.

The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' John H. Williams

The pyrenean prunella has large purple heads; the false dragonhead (_Physostegia_), pale rose-purple spikes; centranthuses, cymes of red and white; centaureas, heads of yellow, blue, and purple; pinks, divers shades of red and white; and monkshoods, hoods of blue or white; and all are very hardy, ready growers, and copious bloomers.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various

-- This bulb produces early in spring, and preceding the foliage, a mass of rose-purple flowers close to the ground.

Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

They saw the sun go down and, shade by shade, deepen and make radiant and then draw away with it the last touches of color -- rose-gold, rose-purple, and rose-gray.

The Lost Prince 1914

On our arrival at the Grand Canon in the morning, after a night of travel and fasting, all the rest of us felt the need of refreshing ourselves and taking breakfast before we would even take a peep at the great rose-purple abyss out there a few steps from the hotel, but the teasing Scot jeered at us for thinking of eating when there was that sublime spectacle to be seen.

Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

They admired the lady in black velvet with rose-purple legs who leapt so neatly on to the galloping horse; they watched the feats of strength and laughed at the clown.

England, My England 1907

_ (A) Produces a profusion of rose-purple pea-like flowers before the leaves appear; foliage also attractive.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

_ Produces rose-purple or white flowers in abundance in earliest spring before the leaves appear.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

Where trees are scattered the flames crawl from tree to tree, the needles of which ignite like flash-powder and make beautiful rose-purple flames.

Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896