Color Names

Mauve Memento

Faded mauve, like a grandmother's perfume bottle on a shelf.

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Mauve Memento is a muted purple, close to mauve.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Mauve Memento

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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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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memento

Noun

  1. A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.
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