Color Names

Pleated Mauve

Periwinkle-blue pleats, folded under a mauve name they never quite wear.

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Pleated Mauve is a muted blue, close to periwinkle.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Pleated Mauve

Pleat

A pleat is a type of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and securing it in place. It is commonly used in clothing and upholstery to narrow a wide piece of fabric through gathering.

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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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pleated

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of pleat

Adjective

  1. Having pleats.
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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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