| 单词 | purple-black |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple-black purple-black n. and adj. ΚΠ 1610 W. Baldwin et al. in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induction sig. Civ At length appeared clad in purple blacke Sweete Somnus. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xii. 264/2 The feathers of the upper surface of the Wings are of a shining purple black. 1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan v. 514 A very beautiful sort of an Adiantum..with shining purple black stalks. 1849 Littell's Living Age 21 July 120/2 She had..beautiful silken hair, of that purple black which poets call hyacinthine. 1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer II. 44 Purple-black heartseases, and thin-filmed silver pods of honesty. 1925 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 38 135 A purple-black seed, in appearance very like an ox-heart cherry. 1958 Mansfield (Ohio) News Jrnl. 7 Sept. 28/1 Grapes, in cool greens or juicy purple-blacks..are piled high in brass bowls. 2002 E. A. Gargan River's Tale viii. 258 I watched the slow bruising of the eastern sky, a purple-black swelling on the horizon mushrooming into gray breakers. < as lemmas |
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