Definition of "brownish-purple" [brownish-purple]

• Of dark purple tinted with brown (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "She turned to face a woman holding a shopping bag, with impeccably styled long, brown curly hair and a scooped-neck tank top in a dark brownish-purple, like the purple in a sunset."
• "My mother and father, brownish-purple in hue, were with me as I waved banners for a President Elect Obama."
• "It all started Saturday while I was working away in the kitchen, when suddenly something that looked like a piece of brownish-purple yarn started floating in front of my face."