Color Names

Wispy Mauve

Faded mauve, now a warm whisper of its former purple self.

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Wispy Mauve is a warm grey, close to beige.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Wispy 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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wispy

Adjective

  1. Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle.
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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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