Literary notes about pale violet (AI summary)
In literature, pale violet is frequently employed as a delicate and evocative hue that infuses both characters and scenes with an air of refined melancholy and understated beauty. Writers use the color to adorn figures—such as in a character’s gown of pale violet chiffon ([1]) or the subtle tint of lips and eyes imbued with pale violet shades ([2], [3])—thereby lending a softness to their physical portrayal. At the same time, pale violet often colors the natural world and atmospheric transitions: twilight may yield to a pale violet glow that transforms dusk into an almost otherworldly spectacle ([4], [5]). This recurring presence of pale violet in descriptions creates a gentle, transient aura, evoking both fragility and a poetic mood throughout literary imagery.
- Jerry was looking her prettiest in her gown of pale violet chiffon and a huge bouquet of violets and orchids.
— from Marjorie Dean Macy by Josephine Chase - Andrews caught glints of contagion in the pale violet eyes of the lame boy and in the dark eyes of the girl.
— from Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos - Her lips, which were pale violet, seemed to me not to move when she spoke to me.
— from La Grande Breteche by Honoré de Balzac - The light became lemon-yellow before nightfall, and then a dull crimson under pale violet.
— from Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells - At first it looks like a mass of towering rocks, which in this hour of twilight magic have taken on a pale violet colour, and seem almost transparent.
— from Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Pierre Loti
