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• n  any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers
• n  a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum
• s  of a color intermediate between red and blue

• My favorite was a long draped chiffon dress shaded in plum, praline, and lime and topped off by violet fur sleeves.
• There's everything from extract of anchan (a Thai flower better known for the violet food coloring it yields) to ylang-ylang (a fragrant oil distilled from the flower of a Cananga .
• But Lucrezia Bori, of tender voice, sang the violet song and threw the cherries.

• reddish blue
• purple
• purplish

News & Articles

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• Violet woman allegedly goes on shoplifting binge at Chalmette shopping center
  A Violet woman on Monday allegedly was foiled amid a binge shoplifting excursion in a Chalmette shopping center. A St. Bernard Parish sheriff's deputy caught her during her fourth theft of the day, according to the Sheriff's Office.Amanda Chanson, 33,...
  June 12, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune
• Violet Genevieve Marshall
  Aug. 13, 1916 - May 11, 2013 var objLink = new myC_Remote.BuyLink(); objLink.LinkContent = " "; objLink.IsAboveImage = false; objLink.LinkClass = "field-items"; objLink.PricingSheetID = "2041"; objLink.Render(); Violet Genevieve Marshall, 96, died May 11, 2013. Violet was born Aug. 13, 1916, in Oklahoma and moved to Bisbee as a child. Violet worked with her husband at their business Marshall ...
  June 12, 2013 - The Sierra Vista Herald
• Violet Marie Handel
  Violet Marie Handel, age 88 of Savanna, Illinois, died on Thursday, June 6, 2013 at Big Meadows Nursing Home. A funeral service will be held 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at Law-Jones Funeral Home, Savanna with Reverend Nancy Wilkinson officiating.
  June 11, 2013 - The Prairie Advocate

Quotes

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• Devin Harris in New York Times
  I didn't want to look at the replay,said Harris, who stood near the center jump circle while the review took place. "I just kept my head down, waiting for a reaction. On the court, I was looking at Violet and she was telling me 'no good.'...
• Peter Mandelson in The Guardian
  Speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr show, Mandelson said: "Yes there's a degree of impatience about the man, but what would you like? Some kind of shrinking violet at the helm of the government when we are going through such stormy waters?"
• David Emerson in The Gazette (Montreal)
  We're no shrinking violet on that issue, but we don't choose to use the Olympics to make that point,Emerson told reporters in China, according to a transcript of the exchange provided by the minister's office.