Parma violet

noun

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

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Meanings

nounParma violet (plural Parma violets)

plural Parma violets

  1. A plant (or a flower therefrom) of a cultivar of Viola alba (white violet).
  2. The colour of the Parma violet flower.
adjectiveParma violet (comparative more Parma violet, superlative most Parma violet)

comparative more Parma violet · superlative most Parma violet

  1. 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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