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Of brown tinged with purple.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Before them, a barren purple-brown field, blanketed in shadows and twilight, spread as far as they could see.
  • In the space of a heartbeat, the purple-brown field receded into the horizon until it dissolved into the haze.
  • Some 20,000 visitors besiege the town of about 1,700 residents surrounded in the distance by purple-brown mountains.
  • It had swept across the white-barked birch trees and their purple-brown branches, and had left them shining all over.
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