plum-coloured

Adjective

plum-coloured (comparative more plum-coloured, superlative most plum-coloured)

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of plum-colored.
   • 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...[1870], “Sienna Marble”, in Cassell’s Household Guide: Being a Complete Encyclopædia of Domestic and Social Economy, and Forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life, volume II, London...
   • 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.1978, Louis Heren, “Not so Self-evident Truths”, in Growing up on The Times, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 307