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  • adjective of white tinged with purple

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Examples

  • This van races you to all corners of the island and through precisely timed flashes of purple-white light, takes you to nearly all timelines as well.

    Lost News: Petition for Disney Attraction, White House Could Derail Season Six Premiere, New Mr. Clucks Commercial Online | /Film 2010

  • The hair has burned completely off his scalp, leaving pink and purple-white strips of skin.

    Sleepless Thomas Fahy 2009

  • Dave and I stepped into the terminal side by side, dusting the purple-white dust cloud of counterbugs out of our pockets and hair.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • Dave and I stepped into the terminal side by side, dusting the purple-white dust cloud of counterbugs out of our pockets and hair.

    Dave Jones and the Survivor 2009

  • I mean, you often see patterned purple-white eggplants of different sizes, but this one is totally monochromatic.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Nupur 2007

  • The huge white globes became purple-white, purple with a reddish glow, flickered, flickered faster and faster, fluttered between light and extinction, ceased to flicker and became mere fading specks of glowing red in a vast obscurity.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • Riding bareback and nearly naked on their purple-white steeds, they looked like wild centaurs in the mist.

    Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

  • It possessed a broad edge consisting of diagonal lines in these six colors, colorful meanders lined with black and white tesserae and a guilloche motif (combinations of purple-white, yellow-white, red-orange-white) on a dark background.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 5 2003

  • He thumbed the firing studs, and lances of purple-white energy lashed the enemy emplacement.

    The Flood Dietz, William 2003

  • South Clark street, flaring with purple-white arc-lights, and looked in at its windows that displayed a pawnbroker's glittering wares, or, just next door, a flat-topped stove over which a white-capped magician whose face smacked of the galley, performed deft tricks with a pancake turner.

    Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

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