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I always thought "purple" meant a mixture of red and violet, hence not a color of the rainbow. Now I find that many Americans, perhaps most, use "purple" as I would "violet", i.e., as a color of the rainbow. People who do that tend not to use the word "violet" except to designate a type of flower, the color of which they would describe as "purple". Am I right?
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