Color Names

Mirage of Violets

Royal purple, an optical illusion of a field of violets on a hot summer's day.

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Mirage of Violets is a deep purple, close to plum.

It can be described as deep, rich, dark and full.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Mirage of Violets

Mirage

A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend via refraction to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French (se) mirer, from the Latin mirari, meaning "to look at, to wonder at".

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List of plants known as violet

Violet identifies various plant taxa, particularly species in the genus Viola, within which the common violet is the best known member in Eurasia and the common blue violet and common purple violet are the best known members in North America, but also:

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mirage

Noun

  1. An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
  2. An illusion.

Verb

  1. To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
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