Mauve

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  • noun. A moderate grayish violet to reddish purple.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A reddish-purple dye obtained from aniline, the sulphate of the base mauvein; also, the color produced by it: so called from the resemblance of the color to the purple markings of the petals of mallows. It is now almost out of use. Also called Perkin's purple, aniline violet, and aniline purple.
  • Of the color of mauve: as, a mauve dress.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
  • noun. a dyestuff produced artificially by the oxidation of commercial aniline, and the first discovered of the so-called coal-tar, or aniline, dyes. It consists of the sulphate of mauveïne, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple color. Called also aniline purple, violine, Perkin's mauve, etc.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A bright purple synthetic dye.
  • noun. The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour.
  • adjective. having a pale purple colour.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a moderate purple
  • adjective. of a pale to moderate greyish violet color
    • Word Usage
    "Children look for the Little People in mauve flowers – Canterbury bells and hyacinths – and, though they never find them, they know them there."
    cross-reference
    Colours  acid mauve  
    Equivalent
    chromatic  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    purple  purpleness  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    sauve  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Burgundy  brocaded  brownish  close-fitting  cream-colored  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    amethystine  lavender  lilac  livid  magenta  
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