Parma violet

noun, adj — 3 senses

noun

A plant (or a flower therefrom) of a cultivar of Viola alba (white violet).

The colour of the Parma violet flower.

adj

Of a deep violet colour.

Her dress was the deepest Parma violet,—so beautiful a colour in itself,—so picturesque in its associations,—the crimson of war and the purple of royalty blended in one:...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 291:

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