Definition of "purple-brown" [purple-brown]

• Of brown tinged with purple (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The discovery of large numbers of the purple-brown flame brocades was first made by Butterfly Conservation officer for Sussex Michael Blencowe and his friend Graeme Lyons when a moth turned up in a back garden at the weekend."
• "Its dark purple-brown colors denote not just extreme drought, but "exceptional" drought."
• "Some 20,000 visitors besiege the town of about 1,700 residents surrounded in the distance by purple-brown mountains."