Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of various shades of purple and violet used in textile fabrics and as a ground color in Oriental porcelain, in the latter use some-times flat, sometimes mottled and sometimes in streaks, as if allowed to run freely down the side of the vase or vessel.
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Examples
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Does anybody besides me adore plum-color with bitter chocolate?
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Amethysts of a deep plum-color, though less beautiful than the next paler shade, command very high prices; while jacinth, beryl, and aqua-marine -- stones of exquisite hue and lustre -- are cheap.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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A large person was entering -- a lady, in an elaborate street gown of a somewhat striking plum-color, crowned by an ample hat with spreading, fern-like plumes.
Apron-Strings Eleanor Gates 1913
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It was a soft plum-color, and had a tiny marabou feather on the side.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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Morris gazed ruefully at the plum-color gown and nodded.
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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"Me late," she said, but Garfunkel forgot all about his lost breakfast hour when he beheld the plum-color Empire.
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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"Them plum-color garments is mine, and I want to get 'em back."
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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She seen one of them samples, style forty-twenty-two, them plum-color Empires what I took it home to show M. Garfunkel on my way down yesterday, and now she's crazy to have one.
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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When Abe returned to the Outlet Auction House's store Hyman was busy stacking up the plum-color gowns in piles convenient for shipping.
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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But on the morning after he had purchased the plum-color gowns from
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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