Color Names

Artichoke Mauve

Dusty, faded artichoke heart, a little grey, a little mauve, like a neglected still life.

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Artichoke Mauve is a warm pink, close to mauve.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

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Artichoke Mauve

Artichoke

The artichoke is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as food.

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Mauve

Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 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.

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Shades of chartreuse

Shades of chartreuse are listed below. Chartreuse is a color between yellow and green, so named because of its resemblance to the color of the French liqueur green chartreuse.

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artichoke

Noun

  1. A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.
  2. A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
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mauve

Noun

  1. A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
  2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective

  1. Having a pale purple colour.
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