Mauve
[mohv] /moʊv/
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.
/məʊv/
noun
1.
2.
Also called Perkin’s mauve, mauveine (ˈməʊviːn; -vɪn). a reddish-purple aniline dye
n.
purple dye, 1859, from French mauve, from Old French mauve “mallow” (13c.), from Latin malva “mallow;” the dye so called from the color of the mallow plant. Related: Mauvish.
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