plumcolored

plumcolored (comparative more plumcolored, superlative most plumcolored)

1. Rare form of plum-colored.
   • 1916, Theodore Dreiser, “Chemung”, in A Hoosier Holiday, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company; London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, →OCLC, pages 126–127:

     As I was sitting on the porch, Franklin having gone off to rout out Speed, an automobile approached containing a man and three women and bearing a plumcolored pennant labeled “Lansing, Michigan.”

   • 1961, John Dos Passos, “Prime Mover (concluded)”, in Midcentury, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 401:

     There was a smoothtalking character in a checkered vest wearing what looked like a plumcolored tuxedo jacket whom she described as a lecturer.

   • 2000 November [1999 September], Keith Ablow, chapter 1, in Projection: A Novel of Terror and Redemption, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 1:

     His stout, six-foot-two frame, outfitted in a plumcolored, double-breasted suit, dominated the scene.