Definition of "purplish-brown" [purplish-brown]

• Of brown tinged with purple (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Most exciting for Britain's army of amateur moth recorders is the largest influx of the rare flame brocade moth for 130 years, with lepidopterists suspecting that the purplish-brown moth has established a breeding colony at an undisclosed location in Sussex."
• "Her genitals lay wet and open, the purplish-brown ripple reminding me of nothing so much as the meat dangling from a gyro sandwich."
• "Accounts of African ancestors "robs" purplish-brown persons of the prominent role they played in the United States."