Color Names

Delicate Mauve

Faded mauve, like a Victorian lady's glove left in the sun.

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Delicate Mauve is a pale grey, close to mauve.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Delicate 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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delicate

Adjective

  1. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
  2. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.

Noun

  1. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
  2. A choice dainty; a delicacy.
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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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