Color Names

Mauve Mole

Mole-like earth tones, nothing like the bright purple that mauve once was.

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Mauve Mole is a warm grey.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

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Mauve Mole

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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mole

Noun

  1. A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.

Noun

  1. Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
  2. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
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