Color Names

Lacquer Mauve

Faded mauve polish, once glossy, now worn thin.

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Lacquer Mauve is a pale grey, close to pink.

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

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Lacquer Mauve

Lacquer

Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal. It is most often made from tree sap and wax and has been in use since antiquity.

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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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lacquer

Noun

  1. A glossy, resinous material used as a surface coating; either a natural exudation of certain trees, or a solution of nitrocellulose in alcohol, etc.

Verb

  1. To apply a lacquer to something or to give something a smooth, glossy finish.
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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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