Color Names

Blossom Mauve

Faded flowers on a grey spring day, when blossoms have dropped their petals.

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Blossom Mauve is a muted grey, close to blue.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Blossom Mauve

Blossom

In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring.

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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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blossom

Noun

  1. A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; a mass of such flowers.
  2. The state or season of producing such flowers.

Verb

  1. To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
  2. To begin to thrive or flourish.
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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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