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  • adjective of green tinged with purple

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Examples

  • The muted purple-green color of the sage was interspersed with patches of wild-flowers, the brilliant crimsons and scarlets of Indian paintbrush, firecracker penstemon, and scarlet gilia.

    Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

  • Around small pastures the leaves on hazel bushes are already turning yellow and, on untrimmed hawthorn and blackthorn, there are reddening haws and purple-green sloes.

    Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash 2011

  • The muted purple-green color of the sage was interspersed with patches of wild-flowers, the brilliant crimsons and scarlets of Indian paintbrush, firecracker penstemon, and scarlet gilia.

    Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

  • Outside, in the weird purple-green light, a raggedy man swept across the promenade, arms and legs flailing like the limbs of a boneless doll.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • Almost one entire length of wall was taken up by a series of mullioned windows that offered the most spectacular views across the water to the purple-green archipelago of the Inner Hebrides, to Jura and Islay and Mull.

    The Edge of Madness Michael Dobbs 2008

  • There's nothing more exciting than a purple-green sky sporting a rotating wall cloud.

    I want my $600.31 back. Angry Professor 2008

  • There's nothing more exciting than a purple-green sky sporting a rotating wall cloud.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Angry Professor 2008

  • As the sky lightened from purple-green to green-tinged silver, he looked to the north and the waiting pteridons, and then at the sky.

    Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

  • The winter sun had already set, and the silver-green sky had rapidly begun to fade into a deep purple-green.

    Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

  • Certainly, the purple-green jungles of Bajor slid by at a more leisurely rate.

    Captain’s Peril William Shatner with Judith 2002

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