mauve
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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.
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| —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 | |
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Mauve
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Etymonline
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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Example sentences
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.
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