plum-red

Updated: June 28, 2025

Even the villages look English: the same plum-red brick of tidy self-respecting houses, neat, demure and freshly painted, the gardens all bursting with flowers, the landscape hedgerowed and willowed and fed with water-courses, the people's faces square and pink and honest, and the signs over the shops in a language half way between English and German.

Edith Wharton - Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort