mauvish

mauve (m

A moderate grayish violet to moderate reddish purple.

[French, from Old French mallow, from Latin malva; see mallow.]

mauve adj.

mauve [məʊv]

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours)

a. any of various pale to moderate pinkish-purple or bluish-purple colours

b. (as adjective) a mauve flower

2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) Also called Perkin's mauve mauveine [ˈməʊviːn -vɪn] a reddish-purple aniline dye

[from French, from Latin malva mallow]

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	mauve - a moderate purple purple, purpleness - a purple color or pigment
Adj.	1.	mauve - of a pale to moderate greyish violet color chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue

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mauve [məʊv]

A. ADJ → malva

B. N → malva m

mauve [ˈməʊv]

adj → mauve

n → mauve m

mauve

adj → mauve, malvenfarben

n → Mauvein nt

mauve [məʊv] adj → (color) malva inv

mauve

n / adj mauve [məuv]

(of) a pale purple colour. ligpers لَوْن بَنَفْسَجي бледоморав slézová barva; světle fialový, lila grålilla; lysviolet die Malvenfarbe μοβ malva kahvatulilla ارغوانی روشن malvanvärinen mauve אַרגָמָן बैंगनी रंग, नील-लोहित, चमकीला बैगनी रंग boja sljezova cvijeta mályvaszínű warna ungu muda ljós purpuralitur color malva ふじ色 (の) 담자색 rausvai violetinė spalva gaišsārti violets warna merah senduduk mauve lilla fiołkowo-różowy cor de malva mov розовато-лиловый (цвет) slezová farba bledo vijoličast prljavo roze []lila มีสีม่วงซีด; ซึ่งมีสีม่วงซีด leylâk rengi 紫紅色；淡紫色的 рожево-бузковий فالسئی màu hoa cà 紫红色；淡紫色的

mauve → بنفسجي nafialovělý lysviolet mauve μοβ malva vaalea, harmahtava violetti mauve ljubičast malva 藤紫色の 담자색의 mauve lillafarget koloru malwy violeta розовато-лиловый ljuslila สีม่วงอ่อน pembemsi leylak rengi có màu hoa cà 紫红色的

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aniline purple
babe-in-a-cradle
blue poppy
chaparral mallow
Christmas berry
Christmasberry
Erythronium dens-canis
European dogtooth
French lavender
goat's-rue
horsemint
Hypericum virginianum
Japanese wistaria
jointed charlock
lavender
lilyturf
Lycium carolinianum
Malacothamnus fasciculatus
marsh rosemary

On screen two, Lydia Hislop is wearing blonde hair and a mauve whatever it is, while Richard Pitman is wearing no hair, a dark suit, a blue tie and a mauvish shirt.

Grand National: Sharon's lost a shoe, and she doesn't look likely to ... by The Racing Post (London, England)

Although Bacon certainly was drawn more frequently to the male nude than to the female variety, he nevertheless created several important paintings of nude women, most notably the 1970 triptych Studies of the Human Body, which featured three sculptural and voluptuously mutilated figures posed on a kind of ramp-armature against a flat, continuous, mauvish pink background, the central, frontal figure incongruously haloed by a large bottle-green umbrella.

Francis Bacon by Nochlin, Linda / Artforum International

On screen two, Lydia Hislop is wearing blonde hair and a mauve whatever it is while Richard Pitman is wearing no hair, a dark suit, a blue tie and a mauvish shirt.

Grand National: Sharon's lost a shoe, and she doesn't look likely to ... by The Racing Post (London, England)

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