mauve
mauve
Definition
mauve (mōv, môv)
noun
- a purple dye and pigment that is produced by oxidizing aniline, used for wool, silk, etc.
- any of several shades of delicate purple
Etymology: Fr, mallow < L malva, mallow: from the color of the mallow
adjective
of such a color
mauve
Synonyms
mauve
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- heather: The yellow of the gorse and mauve of the heather just added a riot of color to the landscape.
Adjective modifier
- pale: In autumn pale mauve or white tubular flowers appear, borne at the end of long stems.
- soft: Mixed with Ultramarine gives a range of soft mauves.
- dirty: A good clear pink on alkaline soils but a rather dirty mauve in acid conditions.
- deep: Deep rosy red on alkaline soil, deep reddish mauve in acid conditions.
- light: Sky Blue:- NEW A breakthrough in Surfinia breeding, has medium sized flowers in shades of sky blue through to light mauve.
Modifies a noun
- gingham: Dressed palm moses basket with ' squeek ' theme print cotton rich cover in white and mauve gingham.
- flower: On the moorland, you may see some tiny mauve flowers with yellow centers.
- tone: The remarkable narrow local hotels and and mauve tones with its brightly.
- color: The former shows only a pale blue, violet, cobalt, or mauve body color.
- white: Racemes of bell shaped flowers in pastel shades of mauve white or cream flowers.
- one: The earlier blue and mauve ones have been out for a while.
Preposition: in
- color: I have a 12 year old rhododendron, about 2 meters high, mauve in color that has just finished flowering.
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