Definitions
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- adjective of white tinged with purple
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Examples
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I woke up around four because I had to use the bathroom and he was propped up on one elbow looking at me with those huge purplish-white love eyes.
Angel 2009
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I woke up around four because I had to use the bathroom and he was propped up on one elbow looking at me with those huge purplish-white love eyes.
Angel 2009
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As the photos on this page show, this digital camera shows vividly in purplish-white the IR emitter of a TV remote control.
Beyond the visible Ray Girvan 2005
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She touches a wet finger to his dry, purplish-white lips.
justinker Diary Entry justinker 2005
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Skin deep purplish-red; neck of medium size; flesh purplish-white, moderately fine-grained, and stronger flavored than that of the Yellow and earlier
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She looked at them in that humorous, kindly way of hers, looked at their silly, excited, made-up faces with noses sticking out stark, like handles, from a too-heavy application of purplish-white powder.
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Plant half-dwarf, -- early in the season, producing slender, transient, barren runners two or three feet in length; flowers purplish-white; the pods are five inches long, often produced in pairs, yellow as they approach maturity, yellowish-white when ripe, and contain five or six seeds.
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Plant of vigorous, branching habit, sixteen inches in height, with broad, deep-green foliage and purplish-white flowers; the pods are five inches and a half long, half an inch broad, green and nearly straight while young, yellow and slender when fully ripe, and contain five or six beans.
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_Molpastes haemorrhous_, but smaller, having a purplish-white ground, sprinkled all over with numerous small specks and spots of purple and purplish brown, with a cap of the same at the large end, underlaid with inky lilac.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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The egg is of smooth texture, without gloss, of a purplish-white ground-colour, and fully spotted all over with light brownish red, especially at the larger end.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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