Parma violet

English

Noun

Parma violet (plural Parma violets)

  1. A plant (or a flower therefrom) of the Parma violet, a cultivar of Viola alba.
  2. The colour of the Parma violet flower.

Adjective

Parma violet (comparative more Parma violet, superlative most Parma violet)

  1. Of a deep violet colour.
    • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 1, page 291:
      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:...
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