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plum-coloured en · ADJ

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1. Commonwealth standard spelling of plum-colored.
   • When partially dry, describe with a hair pencil, between the patches, broad veins of a mixture of dark blue and Venetian red; with a feather, passing over these veins, a broader, irregular tracing of a fainter, more plum-coloured hue, which may be formed of the remnants of the last-named colours, thinned, and a little lake added, with some additional fine veins in this colour. [1870], “Sienna Marble”, in Cassell’s Household Guide: Being a Complete Encyclopædia of Domestic and Social Economy, and Forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life, volume II, London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, […], →OCLC, “The Household Mechanic: Painting (continued):—Imitating Fancy Woods and Marbles” section:
   • Rowland drove, because he liked driving, and the car was new: a plum-coloured Peugeot, sleek and fast. 1996, Sue Gee, chapter 4, in The Hours of the Night, London: Arrow Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 27:
   • One young lad casually tried on some bright clothes suitable for a Caribbean winter and another exchanged his jeans and sweatshirt for a white dinner jacket and plum-coloured trousers. 1978, Louis Heren, “Not so Self-evident Truths”, in Growing up on The Times, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 307:

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