Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. of black tinged with violet
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Examples
-
Liquid ozone is bluish black and solid ozone is violet-black.
-
In the violet-black sheen of the mirror, where the sunlight crawled, was the vaguest shadow.
-
_Peach Black_, or Almond Black, made by burning the stones of fruits, the shell of the cocoa-nut, &c., is a violet-black, once much used by Parisian artists.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
-
The faint ranges of hills which bound the distant horizon take on those diminishing shades which their respective distances assign them, and stand delicately, ethereally, against the waning colours of the sunset, whilst the foreground rocks are silhouetted violet-black against the desert floor.
-
Blue-black and violet-black writing and copying inks of the class made by the "Antoines" are the principal kinds.
-
Thus treated, marks in logwood ink turn dark violet or violet-black.
-
They are best known as the makers of the French copying ink, of a violet-black color, made from logwood, which was first put on the market in 1853 under the name of Encres Japonaise.
-
The last bars of day had long since dimmed in the west when before them loomed the hill of Munychia clustered also with tents, and beyond it the violet-black vista of the sea.
-
Ulamhala slowly and noiseless as a cat stepped to the window, and, leaning out over the marble railing, looked up into the violet-black heavens.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
-
'Mellish's Own Invincible Fumigatory' -- a heavy violet-black powder -- 'the result of fifteen years' scientific investigation, Sir! '
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.