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mauve
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moʊv
/
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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;
<
French:
literally, mallow <
Latin
malva
mallow
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mauve
(məʊv)
—
n
1.
a. any of various pale to moderate pinkish-purple or bluish-purple colours
b. (
as adjective
):
a mauve flower
2.
Perkin's mauve
, Also called:
mauveine
a reddish-purple aniline dye
[C19: from French, from Latin
malva
mallow
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th 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, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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We're calling the flower color a rosy
mauve
for short.
Authentic checks are
mauve
color and have a foil emblem.
The product has a
mauve
colored handle, a silver barrel and a white plastic cool tip.
Color-block jackets mixed pink, turquoise and
mauve
and for an added fillip
reversed to the leather side.
Mauve
pink flowers with slender, drooping rays appear in late summer to fall.
The soft mint green and
mauve
colors would never frighten the horses.
Another added a
mauve
hat and tie to his shadow-plaid suit.
Inside, the couple has pulled up the
mauve
shag carpet and torn down the kitschy wallpaper.
Mauve
linen napkins were decorated with self-covered linen buttons.
In less favorable locales, it is a much squatter, shorter-lived plant with smaller flowers verging on
mauve
.
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