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Parma violet en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Of a deep violet colour.
    • Her dress was the deepest Parma violet,—so beautiful a colour in itself,—so picturesque in its associations,—the crimson of war and the purple of royalty blended in one:... 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 291:

Forms

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most Parma violet Degree=Sup lexicographic
more Parma violet Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Parma violet en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A plant (or a flower therefrom) of a cultivar of Viola alba (white violet).
  2. The colour of the Parma violet flower.

Forms

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Parma violets Number=Plur lexicographic