English

Adjective

blue-red ‎(comparative more blue-red, superlative most blue-red)

1. (colour) Of a colour between blue and red; purple.
   • 1840, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's Theory of Colours:

     This unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red [transl. Blaurot] would be intolerable.

Related terms

• yellow-red