[f. VIOLET sb.1 or a.]

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  1.  trans. To tinge with a violet hue.

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1623.  trans. Favine’s Theat. Hon., I. iv. 35. For the Noble Kings of France mourne in Scarlet violetted.

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1832.  [R. Cattermole], Beckett, etc., 192. The sea, Yet darklier violeted, almost frowned With splendor.

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1895.  Meredith, Amazing Marriage, v. One flank of the white in heaven was violetted wonderfully.

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  2.  intr. To gather violets.

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1813.  Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), I. 226. To-morrow I shall go violeting.

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1827.  Mrs. Hemans, in H. F. Chorley, Mem. (1836), I. 151. Having accompanied you again, and again, as I have done, in ‘violetting’ and seeking for wood-sorrel.

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1873.  Argosy, XVI. 270. How delightful was that day among the Kentish Downs! We began it by violeting in the woods.

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