mauve
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /məʊv/
- (US) IPA(key): /mɔːv/, /moʊv/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) Audio (US, alternative): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊv, -ɔːv
Noun
editmauve (countable and uncountable, plural mauves)
- (historical) A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
- mauveine:
- old mauve:
- A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.
- mauve:
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 151:
- Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mauve.
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Adjective
editmauve (comparative mauver or more mauve, superlative mauvest or most mauve)
- 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.
Quotations
edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mauve.
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editFrench
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.
Noun
editmauve f (plural mauves)
Noun
editmauve m (plural mauves)
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editmauve (plural mauves)
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editInherited 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.
Noun
editmauve f (plural mauves)
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editFurther reading
edit- “mauve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”) or Old Norse már, mávar (compare Icelandic mávur), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”).
Noun
editmauve f (plural mauves)
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editEtymology 2
editFrom Old French, from Latin malva.
Noun
editmauve f (plural mauves)
- (Jersey) tree mallow (Malva arborea, syn. Lavatera arborea)
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