violet

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It is the best event the site has seen since 2016, with swathes of the desert transformed and covered in golden and violet flora.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

The author promises discoveries as well as a fresh take on the familiar, including 19th-century paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny, a violet Caspar David Friedrich moonscape and plenty of Georgia O’Keeffe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Dior’s J’Adore Intense captures the scent of solar flowers — jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose, violet — right before they burst into fruit.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

The show opened with a series of violet, green and silver sequined tops in a 1920s style -- reproductions of a bodice designed by early 20th-century French designer Paul Poiret who Anderson namechecked as inspiration.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

In the way of medical treatments, she had already dabbed gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on a cut, and painted lead lotion on a bruise.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan