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Definition of Purplish red

1. Noun. A red with a tinge of purple.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purplish Red

Literary usage of Purplish red

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Noctuae and Their Varieties by James William Tutt (1892)
"The ground colour deep purplish-red or red- brown, with the basal area slightly slaty or glaucous as in the type, to the central transverse shade, ..."

2. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"Skin thin, tender, smooth, glossy, pale yellow or greenish, nearly overspread with deep purplish-red approaching blackish-purple on the exposed cheek ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Fls. purplish red, in large and rather dense panicles. ... with deep purplish red fls. Var. duplex, Lemoine, with double purplish lilac fls. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"At the fundus on the left side the tumor (purplish red on section, very dark in the illustration) has penetrated to within 8 nun. of the serous coat of the ..."

5. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"... of the Old Red Sandstone of the district not many miles to the north, that is, fine purplish-red rocks with a compact FIo. 51. ..."

6. Tables for the Determination of Common Minerals, Chiefly for Their Physical by William Otis Crosby (1895)
"Lithia usually colors the flame bright purplish red. Magnesia is recognized in many of its compounds by the pink color which they assume when moistened with ..."

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