plumcoloured
See also: plum coloured and plum-coloured
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]plumcoloured (comparative more plumcoloured, superlative most plumcoloured)
- (British spelling) Rare form of plum-colored.
- 1945 [1944], John Dos Passos, “The Two Ends of Pennsylvania Avenue”, in State of the Nation, London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. […], page 218:
- Through the smudged windows of the daycoach you could see a string of coal cars, the black tipple of a mine standing up in the fold of a hill beyond the bleak storefronts of the main street of the little town, and behind the tipple the plumcoloured hills streaked with blue coal smoke.
- 1990, Elizabeth Cull, quoting H[arold] J[ohn] Massingham, “The Oxfordshire Way LDFP”, in Walking in the Chilterns, London: Robert Hale, →ISBN, chapter 6 (The Long-Distance Footpaths), page 127:
- The golden time to be in these woods … is on a misty day in November when every tree is pale copper, and you can look over their heads down into the Bix valley, filled with a plumcoloured haze like grapebloom.
- 2013, Brian Panhuyzen, chapter 7, in The Sky Manifest, Toronto, Ont.: misFit, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 220:
- By the time he reached the highway a plumcoloured light filled the eastern sky and the light set in silhouette a pair of tractortrailers thundering into town, their jakebrakes hacking as they passed the speed limit signs.