Color Names

French Mauve

Vibrant magenta, though originally a softer, more fleeting purple, like a perfumed powder puff.

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French Mauve is a bright pink, close to magenta.

It can be described as bright, vivid, brilliant and glowing.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

French 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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Verb

  1. To prepare food by cutting it into strips.
  2. To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
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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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