Beetrooty

"She's coming out," screamed the smallest boy, with the whitest face, the most beetrooty nose, the thinnest blouse, and the most precocious intellect ever seen or heard of.

The exertion of walking in a tight dress over rough fields made her momentarily more beetrooty.

Swelling up with a beetrooty apoplectic rage, the Councillor seized the white silk chair and, swinging it by the arms, banged it violently against the floor […]

The soup makes a good starter: Ukrainian barszcz (£4.50) is a rich, beetrooty affair.

Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea.