The word "purple" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has a color between red and blue, such as a dress or a flower. For example, "My daughter wore a beautiful purple dress to the party."
Three-quarters of the world's heather moorland is found in Britain; the heather flowers purple in August, the bracken shines bronze in the autumn and the moors are dusted white with snow in midwinter.
The collection answers the endless questions of what to do with the tiny turnips, pink-flushed Florence onions, purple carrots and broad beans the size of a little finger that those of us who use box systems or shop at farmers' markets often find in our kitchens.
Flags from 72 nations (including Dominica with its green and purple parrot) are on sale at the auction.
There are around 30 types of lavender, producing flowers of varying colours including purple, pink and white.
Hebridean sheep graze freely on the Machrihanish Dunes course, serving as natural lawnmowers, and the rough is studded with purple pyramid, frog and marsh orchids.
Later on, Huntman arrives in his purple and yellow branded Smart car at a supermarket to join some of the 30 Ukip activists canvassing locally, including more than a dozen members of Ukip's youth wing staying in the constituency as part of an East Coast Action Weekend, as well as the party's candidates from Edinburgh South and Camberwell and Peckham.
Sometimes he would turn up drenched in the purple dye used by the army to identify rioters, and always he would be loquacious; eager for debate.
The model might be high 60s, but the purple background is bang on the money.
Ali is our good girl who is swayed to the darker side of life through a really bad thing which happens at the start of the book which I won't explain as, well, spoilers, and Cole's tempting purple eyes.
Signs that a patient has suffered satanically include flinching at green or purple objects, the colours of the high priest and priestess's robes.
