Word of the Day – Heliotrope

• Noun: Heliotrope
  1. a plant of the borage family, cultivated for its fragrant purple or blue flowers, which are used in perfume
• Adjective: Heliotrope
  

1. a light purple color, similar to that typical of heliotrope flowers

• Synonyms:
  1. Purple
  2. Burgundy
  3. Grape
• Usage:
  • “Struggling with the string of a packet, she opened a white cardboard box, and there lay a white silk handkerchief packed neatly under the paper lace of the box, and her initial, worked in heliotrope, fully displayed. She smiled pleasantly, and gently put the box aside”
• Encountered:
  • The short story The White Stocking by D. H. Lawrence

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