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mauve

  [mohv]
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–noun
1. a pale bluish purple.
2. a purple dye obtained from aniline, discovered in 1856: the first of the coal-tar dyes.
–adjective
3. of the color of mauve: a mauve dress.
Origin:
1855–60; < F: lit., mallow < L malva mallow
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mauve   (mōv)   
n.  A moderate grayish violet to moderate reddish purple.

[French, from Old French mallow, from Latin malva; see mallow.]
mauve adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

mauve 
1859, from Fr. mauve, from O.Fr. mauve "mallow," from L. malva "mallow;" the dye so called from the color of the mallow plant.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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