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Definition of Purply
1. purplish [adj] - See also: purplish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purply
Literary usage of Purply
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Art and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1920)
"The panelled walls are a beautiful purply grey discreetly relieved with gold
lines, an excellent background for most pictures. The walls are a rare colour ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
""Both colors in the pair are horrid to me; one perhaps less than the other
because 'less like purply' I said, but I really think it was a purely affective ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1884)
"This insect, which I call "Adonis' Moth," is purply red and blue, the latter
shade a very unusual one in the ornamentation of these ..."
4. Journal of the Waterloo Campaign: Kept Throughout the Campaign of 1815 by Cavalié Mercer (1870)
"... in the effect under which they are seen, and the delicious tones of the aerial
perspective gradually melting into the purply tints of extreme distance. ..."
5. Storied Windows: A Traveller's Introduction to the Study of Old Church Glass by Arthur J. de Havilland Bushnell (1914)
"Jesse has a ruby robe ground out in parts and stained yellow; his sleeves and
skirt are purply grey; the field behind him is emerald green. ..."
6. The Tower of the Mirrors: And Other Essays on the Spirit of Places by Vernon Lee (1914)
"On the other side was the purply brown of the marsh, with wide ponds and streams
reflecting the sky, and reeds where the grey cattle drank. ..."
7. The Tower of the Mirrors: And Other Essays on the Spirit of Places by Vernon Lee (1914)
"On the other side was the purply brown of the marsh, with wide ponds and streams
reflecting the sky, and reeds where the grey cattle drank. ..."
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