Color Names

Stage Mauve

Faded theatre curtains, mauve now but once a richer, more dramatic purple.

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Stage Mauve is a muted pink, close to purple.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Stage 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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stage

Noun

  1. A phase.
  2. One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.

Verb

  1. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
  2. To arrange in a manner intended to deceive.
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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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