Definitions
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- adjective of brown tinged with purple
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Examples
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Some 20,000 visitors besiege the town of about 1,700 residents surrounded in the distance by purple-brown mountains.
Smoke Signals: The glory of a Hatch chile Jim Shahin 2010
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The discovery of large numbers of the purple-brown flame brocades was first made by Butterfly Conservation officer for Sussex Michael Blencowe and his friend Graeme Lyons when a moth turned up in a back garden at the weekend.
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Its dark purple-brown colors denote not just extreme drought, but "exceptional" drought.
Where the Game Is in a Dry Season John Paul Newport 2011
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They had been waiting since the fall, their flowers shrouded yet ready, and soon the bogs were carpeted in the purple-brown of alders, and chipmunks and beavers were on the move.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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They had been waiting since the fall, their flowers shrouded yet ready, and soon the bogs were carpeted in the purple-brown of alders, and chipmunks and beavers were on the move.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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Hydrothelphusa vencesi is a maximum (known) size of 52 mm (just over 2 inches) and has a purple-brown shell (carapace).
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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In front of our condo were beautiful olive trees that dropped purple-brown olives.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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In front of our condo were beautiful olive trees that dropped purple-brown olives.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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In front of our condo were beautiful olive trees that dropped purple-brown olives.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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In the same plate of set B, it is the orange-brown and orange, and the brown-purple and purple-brown that appear indistinguishable.
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