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mauve, n. and a.|məʊv|
[a. F. mauve: see mallow.]
a. n. A bright but delicate purple dye obtained from coal-tar aniline; the colour of this dye.
b. adj. Of the colour of ‘mauve’. Also Comb. mauve-colour, mauve-coloured adjs.; also with other colours, as mauve-pink, mauve-red.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geogr. Soc. XXIX. 427 Beads..mauve-coloured round or oval. 1859Blackwood's Lady's Mag. XLVI. 61 The lower part of the skirt is trimmed with ruches of mauve-colour crape. 1860C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret ix. (1861) 137 Her mauve muslin..flounced up to her waist. 1861St. James's Mag. I. 292 The fashionable and really beautiful mauve and its varieties. 1863Fownes's Chem. 672 Mauve thus prepared forms a brittle substance, having a beautiful bronze-coloured surface. 1877W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. ii. 126 Some beautiful mauve patches of almond-blossom. 1882Garden 21 Oct. 353/3 A pretty variety..finely edged with pale mauve. 1899B. W. Warhurst Colour Dict. 44 Lilac-rose is a dull rose..which..as a tint will appear as..Mauve-pink. 1917D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 57 Their mauve-red petals on the cloth. 1952A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 92 Catalpa Fargesii..with its fine var. Duclouxii with large mauve-pink flowers.
Hence ˈmauvish a., somewhat mauve.
1896Vizetelly Zola's Rome 187 Whose blue, mauvish eyes paling with enthusiasm he now..remarked. |