| 单词 | purplish-white |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurplish-white Modifying colour words to form adjectives and nouns, as purplish-green, purplish-red, purplish-white, etc. ΚΠ 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole ii. i. 474 A number of small purplish white flowers. 1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 1280 In a little time more, it will be of a Purplish red. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Meadow-saffron Chequered Meadow-Saffron of Naples, has deep purplish red Flowers, chequered like a Frittillary. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Service-tree The branches, while young, have a purplish brown bark. 1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 14 Seed purplish-black. 1848 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 368/1 Amethyst is a pure rock-crystal, of a purplish-violet colour. 1882 Garden 27 May 366/1 Spikes of purplish green flowers. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark iii. ii. 262 By the morning light, the purplish brown circles under her eyes were pathetic enough, and foretold no long or brilliant future. 1948 C. Rice Big Midget Murders xxiv. 200 The walls were done in an exquisitely designed paper, grey-white scrolls against a darker, purplish grey. 1988 M. Gardiner Scatter of Memories 207 She wore a long purplish-blue dress with a lace collar. 2000 C. Hanger World Food: Morocco 123 Our baskets fill with purplish-red, round rammahn (pomegranate), pears and lemons too. < as lemmas |
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