a. [f. VIOLET sb.1 + -Y.] Of or belonging to violets; more or less violet in color.
1817. Lit. Gaz., 4 July, 70–1. When we are told of the deadness of the violety tints of his [Da Vinci’s] colouring, we refer to the era in which he lived for the imperfections of any mechanical process that has failed to preserve his colours.
1831. Keightley, Mythol. Anc. Greece & It., 399. His mother called him Iamus, Violety.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess (1900), 96/2. Dark eyelashes and brows,… and large eyes violety-bluey-blackish.
