Color Names

Tourmaline Mauve

Dusty pink, like a tourmaline gem that's lost its sparkle and a mauve dress that's faded.

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Tourmaline Mauve is a warm grey, close to pink.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Tourmaline Mauve

Tourmaline

Tourmaline is a crystalline silicate mineral group in which boron is compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. This gemstone comes in a wide variety of colors.

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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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tourmaline

Noun

  1. A complex black or dark-coloured borosilicate mineral, compounded with various chemical elements and considered a semi-precious stone.
  2. A transparent gemstone cut from it.
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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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