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Original entry ↗noun
A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine. · A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryHaving a pale purple colour.
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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