Parma violet

English

Noun

Parma violet (plural Parma violets)

1. A plant (or a flower therefrom) of a cultivar of Viola alba (white violet).
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, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, 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:...