blackish-violet

Updated: April 30, 2025

I will now give a short description of each of the known species, and then add some general remarks on their natural history. The body, wings, and tail are of a rich coffee-brown, which deepens on the breast to a blackish-violet or purple-brown.

Alfred Russel Wallace - The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2

At the door of the chamber Hugo caught the sound of hoarse, stertorous breathing. He entered, and saw on the mahogany bed an almost unrecognizable form bolstered up on a mass of cushions. Balzac's unshaven face was of blackish-violet hue; his grey hair had been cut short; his open eyes were glazed; the profile resembled that of the first Napoleon.

Frederick Lawton - Balzac