Color Names

Old Mauve

Faded, darkened purple, like a Victorian dress that's seen better decades.

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Old Mauve is a dark maroon, close to plum.

It can be described as dark, dim, somber and gloomy.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Old Mauve

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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old

Symbol

  1. ISO 639-3 language code for Mochi.

Adjective

  1. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
  2. Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
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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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