Meanings of blue-purple in English

Tattered, blue-purple clouds, reddening in the east, were scudding before the wind.

She wore a velvet dress the deep blue-purple of twilight.

The water will turn the potatoes a light blue-purple and will give them lots of flavour.

Mrs. Horniblow caught herself growing lyrical-thinkingof stars, of twin mountain lakes, the blue-purple of ocean.

His legs were massive and blue-purple, obese with swelling and the terrible bruising of drastic trauma.

It had a head shaped like a hexagon, with a striking metallic green-blue-purple colour, and jagged antennae.

These latter are of a dark shade of blue-purple, if you will,-andhis hair is tinged with red.

He walked through the open doorway into the Hall of Mysteries, smiling gently as blue-purple-white light fell upon him.

The blue-purple discoloration of the bone of the mastoid air cells was typical of drowning, though not proof of it.

The red colors are shallower water and the blue-purple colors are deeper water (a couple hundred meters in this case).

In the small hours she left her bed, threw a silk dressing-gown about her, drew aside the heavy, blue-purple, window curtain and looked out.

The unique blue-purple slate only found on Valentia was used in several Victorian buildings, including at Westminster, by the architect Augustus Pugin in the 1840s.

It was still grey, but the sun was beginning to strike other colours in it now: a somber green, and, deeper, a hint of blue-purple.

By the time we reached the dock, twilight had fallen and a deep blue-purple haze enveloped us, deepened by the mist of the smoking incense.