Definitions for mauve
moʊv, mɔvmauve

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. mauveadjective

   a moderate purple

2. mauveadjective

   of a pale to moderate greyish violet color

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mauvenoun

   A bright purple synthetic dye.

2. mauveadjective

   having a pale purple colour.

3. Etymology: From French mauve, from Latin malva, ‘mallow’, which has a purple colour. First coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.

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1. Mauve

   Mauve ( (listen), mohv; (listen), mawv) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.Mauve contains more gray and more blue than a pale tint of magenta. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are more accurately classified as mauve. Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet.

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1. mauve

   Mauve is a pale purple color that sits between violet and pink in the color spectrum. Its name comes from the French term for the mallow flower, which is of a similar shade. It was first used as a color name in English in the late 18th century. It was also the first synthetic dye, created in the mid-19th century by Sir William Henry Perkin.

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1. Mauvenoun

   a color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac

2. Etymology: [F., mallow, L. malva. So named from the similarity of the color to that of the petals of common mallow, Malva sylvestris. See Mallow.]

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1. Mauve

   Mauve is a pale lavender-lilac color, one of many in the range of purples. Mauve is named after the mallow flower. Another name for the color is mallow with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611. Mauve is more grey and more blue than a pale tint of magenta would be. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are actually mauve. Sometimes mauve can be considered a purplish pink or a pale purple. Mauve can also be described as pale violet.

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1. Mauve

   mawv, n. a beautiful purple dye extracted from coal-tar, so called from its likeness in colour to the flowers of the common mallow.—adj. of the colour of mauve. [Fr.,—L. malva, the mallow.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mauve in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mauve in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mauve
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mauve
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauve
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mauve
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mauve
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=mauve