Eggplant is a dark purple

Purple

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 or brown

Brown

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ish-purple color

Color

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 that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants. Another name for the color eggplant is aubergine (the French

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 and British English

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 word for eggplant).

The first recorded use of eggplant as a color name in English

English language

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 was in 1915.

The pink

Pink

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ish-purple-grayish color shown in the color box as eggplant was introduced by Crayola

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 in 1998.

Different varieties of eggplant may range from indigo

Indigo

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 to white

White

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 (The term eggplant originated as a description of white colored eggplants because they look like eggs). Chinese eggplants are the same shape as a European eggplant, but are colored a dark violet color. Thai eggplants are small, round, and colored forest green.