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mauve
/mɔv/
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What does mauve mean?
noun
- A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.
adjective
- Having a pale purple colour.
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noun
- (historical) A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
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It rarely exceeds 6 feet in height, with dark-green, wrinkled leaves, and erect spikes of pale mauve flowers.
The Barrier, curving to east and west, is a wall of delicate pink overlaid with a wondrous mauve--the rising plateau.
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The Flag-Lieutenant came in and took a good look at the ladies' dresses; Lady Swettenham being in white, Lady Lathom in pale mauve.
She not only wept, like Margot, at melodrama, but she noticed the pink of a cloud, the mauve of a flower, and, what was more important, she called her little daughter's attention to such things.
I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hailstones.