Color Names

Mauve Tinge

Hint of mauve in a whisper of grey, a colour that faded into this.

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Mauve Tinge is a light grey, close to white.

It can be described as light, pale and neutral.

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Mauve Tinge

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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tinge

Noun

  1. A small added amount of colour; a small added amount of some other thing.
  2. The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.

Verb

  1. To add a small amount of colour; to tint; to add a small amount of some other thing.
  2. To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
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