Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to a violet color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to a violet color; violascent.
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- adjective Tending towards a
violet colour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The portrait was vile, a dirty grey colour with large violescent patches.
Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871
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The yellow sunflashes, in falling from the house fronts, sharply outlined the violescent shadows.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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The yellow sunflashes, in falling from the house fronts, sharply outlined the violescent shadows.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 ��mile Zola 1871
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The yellow sunflashes, in falling from the house fronts, sharply outlined the violescent shadows.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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They remind you that before there was fashion, there was texture, pattern, color, and shape … as seen, for example, in the robber crab or the reticulated python or the violescent sea whip or the eagle stones to be found in Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.
Establishing Shots 2006
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They remind you that before there was fashion, there was texture, pattern, color, and shape … as seen, for example, in the robber crab or the reticulated python or the violescent sea whip or the eagle stones to be found in Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.
Establishing Shots 2006
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