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mauver

mauver is the comparative form of mauve.

Meaning of mauve

Adjective

mauve (comparative mauver or more mauve, superlative mauvest or most mauve)

  1. Having a pale purple colour.
    • [A]long their time-marked walls wistaria threw patches of mauve blossom.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 222

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Questions about mauver

What is mauver the comparative form of?
Mauver is the comparative form of mauve.

Words near mauver in the dictionary

  1. mauveines
  2. mauvelous
  3. mauvelouses
  4. mauvely
  5. mauveness
  6. mauver
  7. mauves
  8. mauvest
  9. mauvette
  10. mauvettes
  11. mauvine

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