Color Names

Mauve Organdie

Faded ballgown silk, its purple long gone, now the colour of worn lace.

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Mauve Organdie is a pale grey, close to pink.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Mauve Organdie

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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Organdy

Organdy, also spelled Organdie, is a kind of fabric. It is a lightweight, balanced plain weave made of cotton with features of sheerness and crispness.

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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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organdie

Noun

  1. Alternative spelling of organdy.
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