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  • adjective of blue tinged with purple

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Examples

  • At 11:15 I could attend a tanzanite seminar given by the nice man in the jewelry shop who no doubt wants to tempt us to buy a bauble but I had bought myself one of those purplish-blue stones as a special gift to myself in Tanzania, shortly after my husband died eight years ago.

    Lea Lane: Sailing On The Cheap Aboard A Repositioning Cruise Lea Lane 2011

  • Patrice and Lizzie shrieked, as the actress, looking shocked, turned on the toilet and followed the swollen, purplish-blue cord down into the blood-spattered bowl and retrieved a slimy, white-streaked baby Lizzie knew it was probably a doll, but it looked so real!

    Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

  • They remind me of irises, which are these purplish-blue flowers that popped up around our house each spring.

    Ruby’s Slippers Tricia Rayburn 2010

  • You wake to find a wet snow has sneaked in after midnight wrapping the branches with an airy gauze, spangled with diamonds so that every snarly twig and tendril is an epiphany of white etched against the purplish-blue of an undecided sky.

    alice d’alessio | three poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • He had contracted scrofula as a boy and his face and neck were covered in pendulous purplish-blue lumps.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • You wake to find a wet snow has sneaked in after midnight wrapping the branches with an airy gauze, spangled with diamonds so that every snarly twig and tendril is an epiphany of white etched against the purplish-blue of an undecided sky.

    January « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • They remind me of irises, which are these purplish-blue flowers that popped up around our house each spring.

    Ruby’s Slippers Tricia Rayburn 2010

  • Patrice and Lizzie shrieked, as the actress, looking shocked, turned on the toilet and followed the swollen, purplish-blue cord down into the blood-spattered bowl and retrieved a slimy, white-streaked baby Lizzie knew it was probably a doll, but it looked so real!

    Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

  • At 11: 15 I could attend a tanzanite seminar given by the nice man in the jewelry shop who no doubt wants to tempt us to buy a bauble but I had bought myself one of those purplish-blue stones as a special gift to myself in Tanzania, shortly after my husband died eight years ago.

    Lea Lane: For a Bargain: A Repositioning Transatlantic Crossing 2009

  • I attended a kid's birthday with an underwater cake - the majority of it was purplish-blue.

    You, Too, Can Have Teletubby Poo Jen 2008

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