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violaceous

adjective as in mauve

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The papules are usually pea-sized, flattened, and of a dark red or violaceous color.

The nodules gradually enlarge, the skin becomes reddish, violaceous or livid in color.

At first a pale-pink or dull, violaceous red, they later become yellowish or coppery.

And his violaceous lips gave forth a breath more nauseous than the exhalation from a corpse.

Sometimes the cap is white, whitish or gray, or of a pale violaceous color.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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