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- adjective of white tinged with purple
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Examples
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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.
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The hair has burned completely off his scalp, leaving pink and purple-white strips of skin.
Sleepless Thomas Fahy 2009
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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
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Dave and I stepped into the terminal side by side, dusting the purple-white dust cloud of counterbugs out of our pockets and hair.
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I mean, you often see patterned purple-white eggplants of different sizes, but this one is totally monochromatic.
Archive 2007-08-01 Nupur 2007
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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.
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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
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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.
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He thumbed the firing studs, and lances of purple-white energy lashed the enemy emplacement.
The Flood Dietz, William 2003
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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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