Mars violet

American  

noun

1. a dark grayish-purple color.

2. a purple pigment used in painting, artificially made from an iron oxide base and characterized by strong film-forming properties and permanence.

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Example Sentences

Being difficult and sometimes impossible to procure, Mars violet is often compounded; in which case it is liable to vary both in hue and stability.

From Project Gutenberg

So scant is the number of good purples in common use, that there are but two which can be classed as durable, namely, purple madder and the true Mars violet.

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Rich and beautiful as it is, purple madder cannot be called brilliant; while Mars violet is, of course, ochrous.

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They were formerly introduced by the author, and have been received under the names of Mars yellow, Mars orange, Mars red, Mars violet, and Mars brown.

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