Definition of "purplish-red" [purplish-red]

• Of red tinged with purple (adjective)
• A red with a tinge of purple (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The monarch's profile is in sage green against a background of purplish-red trees and men rowing a boat on peaceful waters."
• "The paramedics checked for lividity—the livor mortis that occurs when the heart stops beating and blood sinks to the lowest part of the body, eventually leaving fixed purplish-red stains or striated marks there."
• "His face turned a terrible purplish-red and he gripped my shoulders with bruising force to shout directly into my face, I forbid it!"