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Pale violet   /peɪl vˈaɪəlɪt/   Listen
Pale violet

noun
1.
Leafy-stemmed violet of eastern North America having large white or creamy flowers faintly marked with purple.  Synonyms: cream violet, striped violet, Viola striata.






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"Pale violet" Quotes from Famous Books



... escaped on either side of his broad person, and in a little pool between his outspread feet. His face had the beery, bruised appearance of the continual drinker's; it was covered with a network of congested veins, purple in ordinary circumstances, but now pale violet, for even with his back to the fire the cold pinched him on the other side. His cowl had half fallen back, and made a strange excrescence on either side of his bull neck. So he straddled, grumbling, and cut the room in half with the shadow ...
— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

... as if by force of some attraction, towards a strange and quite unusual thing, which, less than a mile away along the river, on the Arabian bank, rises upright in the midst of the mournful plains. At first it looks like a mass of towering rocks, which in this hour of twilight magic have taken on a pale violet colour, and seem almost transparent. And the sun, scarcely emerged from the desert, lights them in a curious gradation, and orders their contours with a fringe of fresh rose-colour. And they are not rocks, in fact, for as we look more closely, they show us ...
— Egypt (La Mort De Philae) • Pierre Loti



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