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Bluish-purple   /blˈuɪʃ-pˈərpəl/   Listen
Bluish-purple

adjective
1.
Of purple tinged with blue.  Synonym: blue-purple.






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"Bluish-purple" Quotes from Famous Books



... will mention a process for dyeing felt a deep dead black with a coal-tar black dye which alone would not give a deep pure black, but one with a bluish-purple shade. To neutralise this purple effect, a small quantity of a yellow dyestuff and a trifle of indigotin are added. A deep black is thus produced, faster to light than logwood black it is stated, and one that goes on the fibre with the greatest ease. But I have referred to the use of small quantities ...
— The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing - Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association • Watson Smith



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