brown-purple
3.9
A dark purple color mixed with brown
- adjective
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marrón púrpura
- The sunset displayed a beautiful brown-purple sky as the day transitioned into night.
It's that really pretty brown purple deep color.
- It's that really pretty brown purple deep color.
Examples
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He looked at me with his beautiful dark brown-purple velvet eyes, and I felt that an important connection between us had been established.
Fiction book (1997) -
The artist chose a brown-purple shade for the background of her painting, giving it a warm, earthy feel.
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It's that really pretty brown purple deep color.
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She wore a stunning dress in a brown-purple hue that made her stand out at the gala.
Synonyms
brownish-purple
vsbrown-purple
1
3.4
A dark purple color with a little brown in it
has identical color meaning but differs in written form
maroon-purple
vsbrown-purple
4.1
A purple color with a red-brown shade
emphasizes brown tint rather than a redder brown tone
How Purple
Surface Forms
brown-purple positive
Morphology
Etymology
Brown-purple is simply a joining of brown and purple, and it means 'purple with brown mixed in'. Think of royal purple warmed by earth brown to make a darker, warmer purple, which is exactly the shade the word describes.