Usage examples (5)

• Nature has anticipated man's discovery and made the fine bluish-violet
• The shade obtained in the above recipe is of a bluish-violet hue, if a jet black be wanted, add
• These products are non-crystalline bodies easily soluble in water, and are coloured bluish-violet by ferric chloride and precipitate gelatine.
• I waited patiently until the laboured stertorous whooping sound dropped to a mere gasping wheeze and his complexion ran through the spectrum from a bluish-violet colour...