Beginning with a purple tinge, it gradually turns a spectacular red.

The gymnasts threw one another across the floor in some sort of implied, unspoken, antidrug spectacular, wearing bespangled red, white and blue uniforms.

From a crazy catholic mixture of grape varieties (Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir and Tannat are all in the '90), Guibert of Mas de Daumas Gassac produces a spectacular red that needs at least 10 years' cellaring.

The sugar maple (also called hard or rock maple) tree is known for its spectacular red, orange, and yellow fall colors.

Sugar Maple The sugar maple tree, also called hard or rock maple, has spectacular red, orange, and yellow fall colors.

The searingly spectacular deep reds and oranges of the autumnal foliage had already faded, dropped away to dull brown mulch under animals' hooves, and the first snow had obstinately yet to fall to leave the sere land hidden beneath its crisp albescence.

The green had mostly gone from the landscape, replaced by the spectacular reds, oranges, yellows and browns that pervaded the mountains in the fall.