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Borrowed from French mauve (mallow), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.

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mauve (countable and uncountable, plural mauves)

  1. (historical) A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
    mauveine:  
    old mauve:  
  2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.
    mauve:  

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

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

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old French, from Latin malva (mallow), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.

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mauve f (plural mauves)

  1. mallow

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mauve m (plural mauves)

  1. mauve

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mauve (plural mauves)

  1. mauve
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  • English: mauve
  • Greek: μοβ (mov), μωβ (mov)
  • Romanian: mov
  • Russian: мов (mov)

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Middle French mauve, from Old French mave (mew), from Old English mǣw (mew, seagull), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (seagull). Related to mouette. Cognate with German Möwe (seagull), Dutch meeuw (seagull), Danish måge (seagull), Icelandic mávur (seagull), Polish mewa (seagull) (from Germanic). More at mew.

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mauve f (plural mauves)

  1. mew, gull, seagull
    Synonyms: mouette, goéland
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Etymology 1

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From Old French mave (mew), from Old English mǣw (mew, seagull) or Old Norse már, mávar (compare Icelandic mávur), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (seagull).

 
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mauve f (plural mauves)

  1. (Jersey) seagull, herring gull
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Etymology 2

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From Old French, from Latin malva.

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mauve f (plural mauves)

  1. (Jersey) tree mallow (Malva arborea, syn. Lavatera arborea)
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