plummy

They’re all predominantly a plummy, luminous pur- ple color that Rothko, a skilled technician who often hand-mixed his own pigments, made from animal glue, ultramarine blue, and the synthetic pigment Lithol Red.
How These Rothkos Were Restored Without Touching the Canvas|Adam Rogers|May 30, 2021|The Daily Beast
To this day, no auction room ever feels quite complete without a plummy British voice taking bids.
Bacon’s Overpriced Triptych|Blake Gopnik|November 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Choose carefully and this soft, plummy varietal can enthrall like a fine Cabernet Sauvignon.
Five Ways to Drink Bravely|Mark Oldman|October 25, 2010|DAILY BEAST
A pluot is a hybrid of plum and apricot, dominated by plummy characteristics and lighter on the apricot.
The Secrets of Hybrid Fruit|Stacey Slate|January 22, 2010|DAILY BEAST

But it is easy to overdo the plummy tone, which is apt to become cloying.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914|Various
A warm plummy odor filled the whole house, for Priscilla was cooking in the kitchen.
Anne Of The Island|Lucy Maud Montgomery
The plummy little dark-eyed one, Will—not that shrill little fiend.
It Never Can Happen Again|William De Morgan
And besides we are going to give her half of that big plummy fruit cake Mother sent us from home.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901|Lucy Maud Montgomery
With these words he put down the dish, with the 'plummy' end of the pudding turned towards himself.
Chatterbox, 1906|Various

British Dictionary definitions for plummy

plummy

/ (ˈplʌmɪ) /

adjective -mier or -miest

of, full of, or resembling plums

British informal (of speech) having a deep tone and a refined and somewhat drawling articulation

British informal choice; desirable

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