Lilac

My mother loved lilac bushes so I planted some outside her door.

Among the paintings of Claude Monet is one titled "Lilac Irises" and another called "Iris Mauve."

The color of lilac is named after the lilac flower.

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

When a book is covered in cloth of a good dark tint it may be allowed to remain unbound, but the primrose and lilac hues soon call out for the aid of the binder.

Potassium, heated with a Bunsen burner, gives the flame a lilac color.

Birdadette is a lilac bird with purple hair and light brown eyes.

Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

[…] O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies, / But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first, / Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes, / With loaded arms I come, pouring for you, / For you and the coffins all of you O death.

"Lilac Kingsmith," I said. "What a neat name."