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/vˈaɪəlɪt-blæk/ Listen

Violet-black

adjective

Of black tinged with violet.

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"Violet-black" Quotes from Famous Books

... of some irritable insect it positively trembled. Here was that woman moving—actually going to get up—confound her! He struck the canvas a hasty violet-black dab. For the landscape needed it. It was too pale—greys flowing into lavenders, and one star or a white gull suspended just so—too pale as usual. The critics would say it was too pale, for he was an unknown man exhibiting obscurely, a favourite with his landladies' ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... the Rancho San Gregorio, Senora Violante Ovando de McPherson watched, with the deepest interest, a cloud of dust which rose in the still May air far down the valley; for it was evident that the color in her cheeks and the sparkle in her violet-black eyes spoke a language of devotion and happiness. Her husband was coming home, and with him his vaqueros, after a tedious drive of cattle to San Francisco. He had been gone but a month; but what an interminable ...

— The Ape, the Idiot & Other People • W. C. Morrow

Words linked to "Violet-black" : achromatic, neutral