mauve
3
6.1
- adjective
- /moʊv/
:
malva
- Our robes are simple, mauve and gray.
- mauve and pink
- mauve and purple
- mauve and white
So mushroom again is the kind of like grayishy mauve sort of colour.
- So mushroom again is the kind of like grayishy mauve sort of colour.
- But here's trap, dark mauve kind of color.
Examples
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The artist chose a soft mauve for the background of her painting, emphasizing the vibrant flowers in the foreground.
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The cake, an elaborate five-tiered affair decorated with palest mauve and creamy white roses, would have been safely stowed in its special carrying crate.
Fiction book (1995) -
The kitchen turned out to be mauve.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's in a kind of mauve metallic tube.
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Even their clothing is mauve or soft tan.
Blog text (12) -
There are purple states, mauve states, and violet states.
Blog text (5) -
I drew flowers, butterflies, and stars on my nails with a mauve pencil.
Fiction book (1995) -
Through the mauve morning haze, he watched the river slip past like some immense dark creature.
Fiction book (1999) -
Pillsbury's mouth was mauve, like the plowed fields of autumn.
Fiction book (1993) -
The one for her was tiny, folding, and splattered with a mauve paisley print.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
4
2.8
A pale purple color like the flowers of a spring bush
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1.6
Having a blue-purple color like small garden flowers
A light purple color with a pink tint
A light color with a small touch of violet
Having a light violet colour
Slightly purple in color
A pale, light purple color that looks soft
A pale purple color like pink and blue mixed lightly
A pale purple color with a little blue in it
A pale purple color with a touch of pink
A pale pink color with a little purple
Antonyms
Compounds
How Purple
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mauve as an adjective comes from the name of the mallow flower, known as malva in Latin, which has pale purple petals. When a purple dye called mauveine became common in the 1800s, people began to use mauve to describe a 'greyish violet' or soft purple color.