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mauve

[mohv]

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noun

a pale bluish purple.

a purple dye obtained from aniline, discovered in 1856: the first of the coal-tar dyes.

adjective

of the color of mauve: a mauve dress.

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Origin:
1855–60; < French: literally, mallow < Latin malva mallow

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Inside, the couple has pulled up the mauve shag carpet and torn down the kitschy wallpaper.

So many sacs are bobbing around that the waves seem to be covered in a veil of mauve.

Foot-high mound of white daisies that fade to mauve.

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Inside, the couple has pulled up the mauve shag carpet and torn down the kitschy wallpaper.

So many sacs are bobbing around that the waves seem to be covered in a veil of mauve.

Foot-high mound of white daisies that fade to mauve.

Another added a mauve hat and tie to his shadow-plaid suit.

Mauve pink flowers with slender, drooping rays appear in late summer to fal more add to my plant list.

And a woman covered in grays accented her hat with a mauve bird of paradise feather.

Concrete-block walls and colored concrete floors echo the subtle mauve gray of the landscape's volcanic rhyolite stone.

In less favorable locales, it is a much squatter, shorter-lived plant with smaller flowers verging on mauve.

Mauve pink flowers with slender, drooping rays appear in late summer to fall.

Compact grower with magenta to mauve flowers and good fall color add to my plant list.

Mauve pink flowers with slender, drooping rays appear in late summer to fall add to my plant list.

As if to tune out the futurists, designers are fluffing hair, adding giant orchids and evoking a heady mauve warmth.

Inside, surrounded by mauve velvet walls, with a chandelier sparkling.

On occasion, the experiments would go horribly wrong, including one that left the girl's hair and hands tinted mauve for weeks.

The mauve pinks, violets, and gray-blues are reminiscent of.

It is fragrant, with small dark green leaves and tiny pink or mauve blossoms in mid-spring.

Mauve linen napkins were decorated with self-covered linen buttons.

Color-block jackets mixed pink, turquoise and mauve and for an added fillip reversed to the leather side.

Enveloped in mauve satin and blue velvet, hands prayerfully joined, she gazes with pensive beneficence upon a dark.

She glanced from her mother, stretched out on the mauve wall-to-wall carpet, to her father in the other room.

He left out all secondary detail and created a prismatic effect in beige, white and mauve under a toned turquoise-blue.

It was five feet long and a pale mauve blue with iridescent silver markings''.

Purple is my fav color,'' a preference underscored by her mauve font.

The only dashes of bright color come from mauve and aqua throw pillows and vases filled with cut flowers.

Rutherford was both sweet and faintly enigmatic as the woman in mauve.

They were filtered between embroidered dresses with mauve as the base color and graphic patterns.

One of the latest works on display, it has been installed up front alone on a mauve wall to give it a major.

Vihonski produces prints resembling silk screens, the red cat with mauve eyes being an example.

Resplendent in a flowing brown and mauve bou bou and.

Bands of pale lavender, blue, orange or mauve are trailed across the sea and the sky.

The singer picked out a mauve beaded short dress from the parade of simple silhouettes with fancy.

The singer picked out a mauve beaded short dress from the parade of simple silhouettes with fancy workmanship.

The soft mint green and mauve colors would never frighten the horses.

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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 malvamallow]

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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.

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