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Violet-blue   /vˈaɪəlɪt-blu/   Listen
Violet-blue

adjective
1.
Of blue tinged with lavender.  Synonym: lilac-blue.






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"Violet-blue" Quotes from Famous Books



... and from two to three feet in height; leaves opposite, ovate, pointed, toothed on the margin; flowers purplish, or violet-blue, in terminal spikes; the seeds are small, brown, or blackish-brown, and retain ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr

... me, brother. I have brought a few Plums and these pears for you, A dozen kinds of apples, one or two Melons, some figs all bursting through Their skins, and pearled with dew These damsons violet-blue. ...
— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti

... "his chestnut hair clinging in close and crisping curls to his ivory brow; his eyes of violet-blue, filled with soft vivacity; his teeth, of the most brilliant white, divide lips of coral; his nose is perfect Grecian, and his limbs like the rarest statuary. I might say more, had I ventured ...
— The Fairy Book - The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew • Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock)



Words linked to "Violet-blue" :   lilac-blue, chromatic



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