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单词 mauve
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mauven.adj.

Brit. /məʊv/, U.S. /mɔv/, /moʊv/, /mɑv/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mauve.
Etymology: < French mauve the plant mallow, the colour of the mallow's flower (13th cent. in Old French in sense ‘the plant mallow’; 1804 or earlier as noun as colour name, 1829 as adjective) < classical Latin malva malva n.
A. n.
1. Any of a range of light shades of purple between lilac and violet; spec. the colour of the aniline dye (see sense A. 2).
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > purple dye or pigment > [noun]
turnsole1375
cork1483
jarecork1483
orchil1483
purple1519
purpurisse1519
archil1551
waycoriant1658
orchilla1703
cudbear1772
purple lake1785
imperial purple1788
mauve?1796
phenicin1823
French purple1830
indigo-purple1838
mauve1859
Perkin's mauve1859
violine1859
mauveine1863
purple of Cassiusc1865
tyroline1867
Paris violet1868
Hofmann violet1869
methyl violet1873
punicin1879
crystal violet1885
chrome violet1892
mineral violet1913
Monastral1936
manganese purple1937
?1796–8 Encycl. Perthensis VII. 647/2 Dyeing... The mixture of red and blue produces violet, purple, dove colour, pansey, amaranth, lilac, mauve, and a great number of other shades.
1859 Notes & Queries 1 Oct. 267 We are not quite correct in describing the fashionable colour as mauve.
1861 St. James's Mag. 1 292 The fashionable and really beautiful mauve and its varieties.
1882 Garden 21 Oct. 353/3 A pretty variety..finely edged with pale mauve.
1898 Daily News 29 Sept. 3/4 Cashmere in a tone of Burgundy that is sometimes called aubergine, from the deep reddish mauve of the vegetable.
1927 Daily Express 12 Mar. 3/5 Larkspur, a pastel blue slightly inclining to the mauve.
1958 J. Betjeman Coll. Poems 250 The walls are alternately painted Off-yellow and festival mauve.
1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. x. 153 But art populaire is not the only source of these cacophanous mauves, lime greens, sugar pinks and saffron yellows.
2. A bright but delicate purple aniline dye, one of the earliest synthetic dyes. Cf. Perkin's mauve n. at Perkin n.3 1. Now historical.The dye was originally called aniline purple by its discoverer, W. H. Perkin, and was patented in 1856 ( Brit. Patent 1984).
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > purple dye or pigment > [noun]
turnsole1375
cork1483
jarecork1483
orchil1483
purple1519
purpurisse1519
archil1551
waycoriant1658
orchilla1703
cudbear1772
purple lake1785
imperial purple1788
mauve?1796
phenicin1823
French purple1830
indigo-purple1838
mauve1859
Perkin's mauve1859
violine1859
mauveine1863
purple of Cassiusc1865
tyroline1867
Paris violet1868
Hofmann violet1869
methyl violet1873
punicin1879
crystal violet1885
chrome violet1892
mineral violet1913
Monastral1936
manganese purple1937
1859 All Year Round 10 Sept. 468/2 It took Mr. Perkins three anxious years..before repeated oxidisations worked their spells, and Mauve flashed upon his..eyes.
1860 Chem. News 21 Jan. 74/2 Notices of some of the patents taken out for the preparation and use of the new purple dyes generally known as the ‘mauve or Perkins' [sic] Purple’, [etc.].
1863 H. B. Jones & A. W. Hoffman Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 9) 672 Mauve thus prepared forms a brittle substance, having a beautiful bronze-coloured surface.
1911 I. W. Fay Chem. Coal-tar Dyes xii. 298 Mauve, the very first dye prepared by Perkin in 1856.
1971 E. Gurr Synthetic Dyes 123 Mauveine (mauve; Perkin's violet) is a basic dye of the azine group.
B. adj.
Of the colour mauve.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples
mulberry-coloured1787
plum-coloured1799
mulberry1803
amaranthine1808
mauve1833
mauve-colour1859
mauve-coloured1860
mauvish1876
pontifical1880
plummy1885
plum1887
petunia1892
palatinate1893
1833 Court Jrnl. 2 Mar. 134/2 Mrs Melvil Wilson... White moire poult-de-soie dress; corsage and train of mauve terry, trimmed with satin.
1860 C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret (1861) ix. 137 Her mauve muslin..flounced up to her waist.
1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 126 Some beautiful mauve patches of almond-blossom.
1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty xx. 77 The mauve summer rain Is falling again.
1972 N. Freeling Long Silence ii. 156 She..was being given a choice between crème de cacao, crème de banane and a mauve concoction known in Holland as Parfait Amour.
1991 P. Barker Regeneration vi. 57 Mrs Prior was a small upright woman, neatly dressed in a dark suit and mauve blouse.

Compounds

C1.
mauve-colour adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples
mulberry-coloured1787
plum-coloured1799
mulberry1803
amaranthine1808
mauve1833
mauve-colour1859
mauve-coloured1860
mauvish1876
pontifical1880
plummy1885
plum1887
petunia1892
palatinate1893
1859 Blackwood's Lady's Mag. 46 61 The lower part of the skirt is trimmed with ruches of mauve-colour crape.
mauve-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples
mulberry-coloured1787
plum-coloured1799
mulberry1803
amaranthine1808
mauve1833
mauve-colour1859
mauve-coloured1860
mauvish1876
pontifical1880
plummy1885
plum1887
petunia1892
palatinate1893
1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 427 Beads..mauve-coloured round or oval.
1939 Geol. Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandl. 60 622 Muscovite occurs in the somewhat unusual form of deep mauve-coloured, compact, cryptocrystalline masses.
1991 C. Hiaasen Native Tongue (1992) xxx. 335 Carrie smeared the bridge of her nose with mauve-colored zinc oxide.
C2. Modifying the names of other colours.
mauve-pink adj.
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1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. 66 The glorious mauve-pink bracts of the Bougainvillea.
1899 B. W. Warhurst Colour Dict. 44 Lilac-rose is a dull rose..which..as a tint will appear as..Mauve-pink.
1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 92 Catalpa Fargesii..with its fine var. Duclouxii with large mauve-pink flowers.
1990 Plants & Gardens Autumn 30/1 The flower..is a strange dusky red deepening in colour towards the stalk on the outside and a paler mauve-pink on the inside.
mauve-red adj.
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1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 57 Their mauve-red petals on the cloth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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