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mauvest

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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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