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Parma violet en · ADJ
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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:
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Parma violet en · NOUN
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A plant (or a flower therefrom) of a cultivar of Viola alba (white violet).
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The colour of the Parma violet flower.
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