plum-coloured
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "When partially dry, describe with a hair pencil, between the patches, broad veins of a mixture of dark blue and Venetian red; with a feather, passing over these veins, a broader, irregular tracing of a fainter, more plum-coloured hue, which may be formed of the remnants of the last-named colours, thinned, and a little lake added, with some additional fine veins in this colour."
- "One young lad casually tried on some bright clothes suitable for a Caribbean winter and another exchanged his jeans and sweatshirt for a white dinner jacket and plum-coloured trousers."
- "Rowland drove, because he liked driving, and the car was new: a plum-coloured Peugeot, sleek and fast."
Inflected Forms
more plum-coloured (comparative)
most plum-coloured (superlative)