Color Names

Profound Mauve

Deep, rich plum, a colour that's sunk to its darkest thought.

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Profound Mauve is a dark purple, close to plum.

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

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Profound 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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profound

Adjective

  1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
  2. Very deep; very serious.

Noun

  1. The deep; the sea; the ocean.
  2. An abyss.
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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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