violet-black

Liquid ozone is bluish black and solid ozone is violet-black.

Oxygen 2007

In the violet-black sheen of the mirror, where the sunlight crawled, was the vaguest shadow.

In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

_Peach Black_, or Almond Black, made by burning the stones of fruits, the shell of the cocoa-nut, &c., is a violet-black, once much used by Parisian artists.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

The faint ranges of hills which bound the distant horizon take on those diminishing shades which their respective distances assign them, and stand delicately, ethereally, against the waning colours of the sunset, whilst the foreground rocks are silhouetted violet-black against the desert floor.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

Blue-black and violet-black writing and copying inks of the class made by the "Antoines" are the principal kinds.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

Thus treated, marks in logwood ink turn dark violet or violet-black.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

They are best known as the makers of the French copying ink, of a violet-black color, made from logwood, which was first put on the market in 1853 under the name of Encres Japonaise.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

The last bars of day had long since dimmed in the west when before them loomed the hill of Munychia clustered also with tents, and beyond it the violet-black vista of the sea.

A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

Ulamhala slowly and noiseless as a cat stepped to the window, and, leaning out over the marble railing, looked up into the violet-black heavens.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

'Mellish's Own Invincible Fumigatory' -- a heavy violet-black powder -- 'the result of fifteen years' scientific investigation, Sir! '

The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900