Parma violet

Parma violet

English

Noun

Parma violet (plural Parma violets)

1. A plant (or a flower therefrom) of the Parma violet, a cultivar of Viola alba.
2. The colour of the Parma violet flower.

Adjective

Parma violet (comparative more Parma violet, superlative most Parma violet)

1. Of a deep violet colour.
   • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 1, page 291:

     Her dress was the deepest Parma violet,—so beautiful a colour in itself,—so picturesque in its associations,—the crimson of war and the purple of royalty blended in one:...