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• For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.From the entry grape
• He asked her to remove her scarfing, her neck-a-tee and her mauve pelerine.2012, Jonathan Grant [pseudonym; John Grant], chapter 16, in Bring Flowers of the Fairest (Mehala; 4), [Swanmore, Hampshire]: Jellyfish…. From the entry scarfing
• She was wearing a mauve blouse, a matching mauve bordered sador and a plain muga mekhela.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee. From the entry muga
• It tinges all its length with scarlet stains and mauve globules of burning dew.2003, Kenneth Grant, Gamaliel The Diary of a Vampire, page 27. From the entry moon flood
• I'm hoping xbreeding with the mauve wonder will create a sterile mutation.2002 November 22, chaosisrael, “You people”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 20 May 2022. From the entry xbreed
• 'A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.'1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 110. From the entry aba
• He looked at the mauve envelope doubtfully, and examined the postmark.1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond. From the entry postmark
• Possibly the mauve one would look better,’ said Letitia, ‘although I have always been told that eau-de-nil is really my colour.2011, Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight. From the entry eau de nil
• Next time at Kew, look in the rock garden at the hedgehog plant, Erinacea anthyllis, with its mauve flowers.1993, The Horticulturist, volume 2, page 138. From the entry hedgehog plant
• In spring the fields near the river are covered with beautiful mauve flowers, another pest, known as Patterson’s curse.1952, Glynde Nesta Griffiths, Some Southern Homes of New South Wales, page 20. From the entry Patterson's curse
• Sticking to products with a mauve, brownish-pink tone, the beauty look is both subdued and glamorous — pretty without being too much of a statement.2015 October 1, Melodi Erdogan, “13 Lovely "Get Ready With Me" Videos From YouTube”, in Bustle. From the entry GRWM
• In the herbaceous border many flowers had seeded and podded; spears of them, brown, now rose up behind the mauve blur of the michaelmas daisies.2012, Deborah Moggach, You Must Be Sisters, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry pod
• A more spectacular plant is the noonflower, which often forms huge swards of mauve flowers, from coastal salt marshes through to inland deserts.1972, Vincent Serventy, The Singing Land: 22 Natural Environments of Australia from Surging Ocean to Arid Desert, page 37. From the entry noonflower
• The least cornified, young cells stain violet or blue, more mature cells mauve and the most cornified, old and dying cells stain red.1966, New Scientist, page 290. From the entry cornified
• Theyskens may have wanted loose dresses and tops in mauve and lilac-gray silk to look indistinct, his rough jackets and blousons to seem worn and unprecious.2007 October 8, Cathy Horyn, “McQueen at Full, Fabulous Tilt”, in New York Times. From the entry unprecious
• Orange ones were at prime on a grassy slope and pale mauve ‘species’ crocusses, usually the first to appear, were in full spate among the slender leaf tufts.2002 November, Mary E[leanor] Gillham, “Western Outliers; Fairwater, Victoria & Thompsons’ Parks”, in A Natural History of Cardiff –…. From the entry crocusses
• Orange, mauve, and cobalt blue are three favorite shades now employed by the woman who desires to “make-up” her face, according to the approved beauty standards.1922 March 22, “Belles Tint Faces to Match Gown Colors”, in The China Press, volume XII, number 3261, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 12, column 3. From the entry make-up

Meaning of mauve

1. noun A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
2. noun A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.
3. adjective Having a pale purple colour.

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Questions about mauve in a sentence

How do you use mauve in a sentence?

Mauve is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.”

What is a short sentence with mauve?

“'A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.'”

What does mauve mean?

Mauve means a rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.