1870, Cassell’s Household Guide: Being a Complete Encyclopædia of Domestic and Social Economy, and Forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life, When partially dry, describe with a hair pencil, between the patches, broad veins of a mixture of dark blue and Venetian red; with a feather, passing over these veins, a broader, irregular tracing of a fainter, more plum-coloured hue, which may be formed of the remnants of the last-named colours, thinned, and a little lake added, with some additional fine veins in this colour.
1978, w:Louis Heren, Growing up on The Times Chapter Not so Self-evident Truths, One young lad casually tried on some bright clothes suitable for a Caribbean winter and another exchanged his jeans and sweatshirt for a white dinner jacket and plum-coloured trousers.
1996, w:Sue Gee, The Hours of the Night Chapter 4, Rowland drove, because he liked driving, and the car was new: a plum-coloured Peugeot, sleek and fast.
