Color Names

Velvet Plum

Plum fruit wrapped in dark velvet, somber as a still life.

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Velvet Plum is a dark purple, close to plum.

It can be described as dark, dim, somber and gloomy.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Velvet Plum

Velvet

Velvet is a type of woven fabric with a dense, even pile that gives it a distinctive soft feel. Historically, velvet was typically made from silk. Modern velvet can be made from silk, linen, cotton, wool, synthetic fibers, silk-cotton blends, or synthetic-natural fiber blends.

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Plum

A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus. Dried plums are usually called prunes.

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Plum (color)

Plum is a purple color with a brownish-gray tinge, like that shown on the right, or a reddish purple, which is a close representation of the average color of the plum fruit.

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velvet

Noun

  1. A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
  2. Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.

Verb

  1. To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
  2. To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
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plum

Noun

  1. The fruit and its tree.

Adjective

  1. Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  2. Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
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