Color Names

Smoked Mauve

Faded purple, like mauve dye after years on a smokehouse wall.

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Smoked Mauve is a warm grey.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Smoked Mauve

Smoking (cooking)

Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food, particularly meat, fish and tea, by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood.

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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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smoked

Adjective

  1. Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation.
  2. Of glass, tinted.

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of smoke
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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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