Color Names

Cosmetic Mauve

Faded blush, the kind that wore off by the end of the Victorian ball.

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Cosmetic Mauve is a pale grey, close to mauve.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and very unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Cosmetic Mauve

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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cosmetic

Adjective

  1. Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion.
  2. External or superficial; pertaining only to the surface or appearance of something.

Noun

  1. Any substances applied to enhance the external color or texture of the skin, e.g. lipstick, eyeshadow, eyeliner.
  2. A feature existing only on the surface.
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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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