Might many have thought purplish-brown Americans arrived in 1941?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black History Month; The Subject that Segregates] Reference

It has a purplish-brown skin and contains just one very large seed in the center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference

Accounts of African ancestors "robs" purplish-brown persons of the prominent role they played in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black History Month; The Subject that Segregates] Reference

It has a perfectly straight stem; the growth is pyramidal or rather conical, and the old wood is of a warm purplish-brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885] Reference

Dude, this is what I said: "purplish-brown, with the latter being the more widely-accepted definition found in reputable sources.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Puce Debate] Reference

Within 24 hours the creamy colour of the skin changes to a purplish-brown, but this can be arrested if the roots are stored in the dark at 9-10°C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 38] Reference

In colour, however, the two upper lateral petals differed from what is customary, in having the same purplish-brown tint which characterises the lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Toward the west, great blackish-brown tracts testify to the most recent results of the defoliation program; purplish-brown tracts are last year's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report from Vietnam II: The Problems of Success] Reference

Before maturity, the skin is green or reddish-green, clouded or stained with black or purplish-brown; but, when ripe, changes to rich, deep, indigo-blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The leaves of the root are large and pedate, the divisions wide apart and unevenly toothed; the under sides are distinctly veined with purplish-brown when in a young state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

From Wikipedia: Puce is a color that is defined as ranging from reddish-brown to purplish-brown, with the latter being the more widely-accepted definition found in reputable sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

Behind him there was nothing but the restless surface of the moor, coloured purplish-brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patrician] Reference

The purplish-brown, blobby entity was "coaxed back to life with great patience", according to Penn Uni.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

It ran beside a little river -- the Schie -- which looked like a canal, and it was made of neat, purplish-brown bricks, laid edge to edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chauffeur and the Chaperon] Reference

The cereus buds blossom only at night, opening to a four to six inch ivory-colored flower with lower pedals tipped in a purplish-brown color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch Homepage RSS] Reference

The Brazilian green parrot is a large and beautiful bird, of a fine grass-green, rather paler beneath the feathers, edged with purplish-brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The breast and lower parts are white, the wings purplish-brown, and the tail partly of the same colour, with the two middle tail-feathers of vivid green.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

There was no undergrowth, no clinging vines, no bloom, no color; only the dark, innumerable tree trunks and the purplish-brown, scented, and slippery earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Have and to Hold] Reference

= -- Bark of trunk in old trees deeply cleft with wide ridges, hard, rough, dark gray; in young trees very smooth, often shining; season's shoots green or purplish-brown, white-dotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

= -- Cones, variously placed, 1/2 inch in diameter, roundish, purplish-brown, opening towards the center, never to the base; scales shield-shaped, woody; seeds several under each scale, winged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

In one or two eggs dull purplish-brown clouds or blotches underlie and intermingle with this cap, and occasionally a small spot of this same tint may be noticed elsewhere when the egg is closely examined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

There were deep purplish-brown rings under her eyes, which seemed to have sunk deeper in their sockets; there was no colour in her lips, or scarcely more than a shade; her young cheeks had grown suddenly hollow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Sister] Reference

Medium to large, 1-7/8 x 13/16 x 3/4 inches; oblong cylindrical; color reddish-brown marked with a few purplish-brown spots about the apex; base rounded; apex abruptly tapering, rather short; shell brittle, thin .93 mm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

But so curiously shallow and flat and rusty pale were they against the purplish-brown of the full-blooded, bearded face, that their sharp, sly, sudden look as she went by was as though the adder-fangs had slashed at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

Size medium, 1-5/16 x 1 inches; ovate, oblong; color light yellowish-brown with a few purplish-brown marks about the apex; base rounded; apex abruptly rounded, slightly wedged; small nipples; shell of medium thickness, 1.1 mm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

= -- Bark of trunk in old trees dark brown, rounded-ridged, rough-scaly at the surface; branchlets dark purplish-brown, rough with the persistent bases of the fallen leaves; season's shoots yellowish-green, turning to reddish-brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

Large, 1-5/8 x 7/8 inches; ovate, compressed; color bright yellowish-brown marked with purplish-brown blotches three-quarters of the distance back from apex; base rounded, blunt-tipped; apex blunt-pointed, slightly wedged; shell thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

Medium to large, 1-5/8 x 1 inches; ovate cylindrical, rounded at the base; color grayish-brown, splashed with purplish-brown markings from center to apex; base rounded; apex sloping rather abruptly, nippled; shell brittle, thin, .76 mm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

Here and there we passed a whole villageful of white-washed cottages, with purplish-brown moss covering their roofs -- rather picturesque; and some of the slate-roofed, stone houses are nice in their way, too; I suppose distinctively Cornish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Set in Silver] Reference

Size small, 1-1/4 x 7/8 inches; rounded, compressed toward the apex; color dull brownish-gray, thickly dotted with dark specks, liberally splashed with purplish-brown markings toward the apex; base rounded; apex abruptly blunt-pointed; shell thin, .85 mm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pecan and its Culture] Reference

The dates aren’t the familiar dark, purplish-brown, wrinkled oblong dates from the Middle East and California.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Soup for the Sweaty Soul - Sahm-gyae-tahng] Reference

A bicycling suit of purplish-brown, baggy beyond ageing -- the only creditable thing about it was that it had evidently not been made for him -- a voluminous black tie, a decadent soft felt hat and several French expletives of a sinister description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tono Bungay] Reference

"I have always found three or four eggs -- bright blue, with large irregular purplish-brown blotches and no hair-lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

"I cut down a tree containing a nest and broke all the eggs, which must have been very pretty -- blue ground, very regularly marked with purplish-brown spots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

= -- Trunk and large branches greenish-gray, smooth; branchlets purplish-brown, smooth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference