Thesaurus / plummy
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They’re all predominantly a plummy, luminous pur- ple color that Rothko, a skilled technician who often hand-mixed his own pigments, made from animal glue, ultramarine blue, and the synthetic pigment Lithol Red.
HOW THESE ROTHKOS WERE RESTORED WITHOUT TOUCHING THE CANVASADAM ROGERSMAY 30, 2021THE DAILY BEASTBut it is easy to overdo the plummy tone, which is apt to become cloying.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 147, AUGUST 12, 1914VARIOUSA warm plummy odor filled the whole house, for Priscilla was cooking in the kitchen.
ANNE OF THE ISLANDLUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYThe plummy little dark-eyed one, Will—not that shrill little fiend.
IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAINWILLIAM DE MORGANAnd besides we are going to give her half of that big plummy fruit cake Mother sent us from home.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY SHORT STORIES, 1896 TO 1901LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYWith these words he put down the dish, with the 'plummy' end of the pudding turned towards himself.
CHATTERBOX, 1906VARIOUSThere might be Guava jelly, and a plummy cake, For such a prize I'd laugh to scorn a stomach-ache!
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOLUME 98, JANUARY 4, 1890VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO PLUMMY
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